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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 808 · 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 the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  2. 2.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) blue
  5. 5.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) blue-green
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  9. 9.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) purple
  11. 11.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  12. 12.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) orange
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  20. 20.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) grey (d) blue-green
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) orange
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue-green
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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