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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 711 · 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.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) orange
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  5. 5.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) red
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) red-purple (d) purple
  10. 10.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) orange
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  15. 15.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  17. 17.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue-green
  24. 24.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  26. 26.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  32. 32.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) blue (c) green (d) purple
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) purple (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  36. 36.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) green (d) blue
  38. 38.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  39. 39.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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