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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 644 · 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.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  4. 4.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  5. 5.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) red
  7. 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) orange
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  12. 12.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  15. 15.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) purple (d) red-orange
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red-purple
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) red-orange
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) red
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) purple
  30. 30.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) red-purple
  32. 32.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  35. 35.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red-orange

Answer key

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

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