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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 776 · 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.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) green
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) red
  7. 7.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) red
  9. 9.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  15. 15.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  17. 17.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red
  19. 19.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) grey
  23. 23.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  24. 24.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  26. 26.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) purple
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) green (d) red-orange
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) orange
  36. 36.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  37. 37.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) red-orange

Answer key

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

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