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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 704 · 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.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) red
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) orange
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) blue
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) blue-green
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) blue
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  25. 25.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) blue-green
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) red (d) red-purple
  30. 30.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) blue
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) purple
  38. 38.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  39. 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange

Answer key

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

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