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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 817 · 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) yellow-green (b) green (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) red
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) orange (d) blue-green
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) purple
  9. 9.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  11. 11.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  15. 15.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  19. 19.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  20. 20.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) green
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  28. 28.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red-orange
  32. 32.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) green (d) red
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) yellow-green
  37. 37.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue

Answer key

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

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