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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 744 · 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: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) red (c) orange (d) green
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  6. 6.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  7. 7.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  13. 13.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  14. 14.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  15. 15.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) yellow
  20. 20.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) red (d) red-orange
  23. 23.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  25. 25.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) red
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  34. 34.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) grey (d) blue-green
  35. 35.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  38. 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) blue-green
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) orange (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green

Answer key

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

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