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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 987 · 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.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) blue
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) blue
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  7. 7.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) purple
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) red-purple
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  13. 13.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) grey
  14. 14.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) orange
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) red (d) blue-purple
  19. 19.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  23. 23.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  32. 32.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) green

Answer key

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

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