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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 622 · 40 questions
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Artist's tip (Go round the circle): Order: red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, blue-purple, purple, red-purple. Primary: red, yellow, blue. Secondary: orange, green, purple. Tertiary: the six two-word colours. Neighbours on the wheel are called analogous colours; black, white, grey and brown are neutrals and are not on the wheel.

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  1. 1.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  2. 2.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  4. 4.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  5. 5.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  10. 10.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  12. 12.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  13. 13.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  18. 18.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) red
  28. 28.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  29. 29.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  30. 30.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) red-purple (d) blue
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  36. 36.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. red
  2. 6
  3. yellow
  4. 6
  5. analogous colours
  6. tertiary colour
  7. True
  8. green
  9. yellow
  10. False
  11. green
  12. yellow-orange
  13. True
  14. blue-green
  15. False
  16. primary colour
  17. yellow-green
  18. False
  19. primary colour
  20. True
  21. blue-purple
  22. True
  23. 12
  24. tertiary colour
  25. purple
  26. purple
  27. blue-purple
  28. a primary + a secondary
  29. grey
  30. True
  31. tertiary colour
  32. yellow-orange
  33. orange
  34. red-purple
  35. red
  36. True
  37. True
  38. secondary colour
  39. False
  40. False

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