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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 66 · 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.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  2. 2.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) orange
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) red (d) green
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  8. 8.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
  11. 11.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  13. 13.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  16. 16.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  17. 17.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) red-purple
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) green (d) blue-purple
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) orange
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) orange
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
  34. 34.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) green
  35. 35.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  37. 37.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) grey (d) orange
  38. 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) yellow
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow

Answer key

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

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