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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 875 · 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) purple (b) red (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) red (d) purple
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) purple
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) green (d) yellow
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) red-orange
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) purple
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  21. 21.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) red
  22. 22.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) blue-purple
  23. 23.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) red
  24. 24.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) orange
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  30. 30.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) purple (b) green (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  35. 35.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) purple (d) red-purple
  38. 38.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) red-purple

Answer key

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

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