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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 947 · 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 a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red
  2. 2.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  3. 3.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow (d) purple
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) orange
  9. 9.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  12. 12.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) red-orange (d) green
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) purple
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) red
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) orange
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) purple
  25. 25.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) blue-green (c) red (d) orange
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  28. 28.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  30. 30.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) red
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) blue-purple
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) green
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) red
  39. 39.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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