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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 786 · 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.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow-green
  2. 2.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) red-orange
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) purple (d) yellow
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) red
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  17. 17.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  18. 18.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) yellow
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) purple (d) red-orange
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  23. 23.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) orange (d) red
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) green
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) red (d) red-orange
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  32. 32.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) green
  33. 33.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) purple
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  39. 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) yellow (d) purple
  40. 40.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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