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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 951 · 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 the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  7. 7.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) blue
  12. 12.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) red
  15. 15.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  17. 17.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow-green
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) red-purple
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) blue-green
  26. 26.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) green
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) red-orange (d) orange
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  38. 38.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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