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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 76 · 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.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  2. 2.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) red
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) blue-green
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  9. 9.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) green (d) red
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  18. 18.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) purple
  19. 19.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red-orange
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) orange
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  29. 29.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  31. 31.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) green
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) green (d) orange
  36. 36.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) green (d) purple
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) blue-green
  40. 40.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) green

Answer key

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

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