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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 827 · 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 red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) green
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  4. 4.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  5. 5.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) red
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) red-purple (d) yellow-green
  14. 14.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
  16. 16.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  20. 20.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  22. 22.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) yellow (d) orange
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) red-orange (d) green
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  27. 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) blue
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  30. 30.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) green (d) blue-purple
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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