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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 933 · 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.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  3. 3.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  4. 4.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) red-orange
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) green (b) red (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) red-purple
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) orange
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red-purple
  13. 13.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) green
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue-green (d) red
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) blue-purple
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) green
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) purple (d) green
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  25. 25.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  28. 28.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) green (d) blue-purple
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red
  33. 33.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) green
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) green
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) purple (d) green
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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