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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 900 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) red
  6. 6.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  7. 7.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  12. 12.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) green
  14. 14.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) red
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) red (d) yellow-green
  17. 17.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) red
  19. 19.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue-green
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) yellow
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) green
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  29. 29.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red-purple
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  31. 31.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) red-orange
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) blue
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  39. 39.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) yellow-green

Answer key

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

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