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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 623 · 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 tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue-purple
  2. 2.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) red (d) red-purple
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  6. 6.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) red
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  11. 11.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) red
  12. 12.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  20. 20.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) blue-purple
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) red
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) green
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red-purple
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  36. 36.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) grey
  37. 37.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) green
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow

Answer key

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

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