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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 925 · 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.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) red-orange
  3. 3.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) blue-green (d) orange
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) red-orange
  5. 5.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) orange
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) red-purple
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) green
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) red (d) yellow
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  27. 27.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) red
  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, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  34. 34.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) green
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  38. 38.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour

Answer key

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

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