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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 130 · 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.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) blue (d) purple
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) blue
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) blue
  12. 12.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  13. 13.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) green (d) red
  15. 15.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) red-orange
  17. 17.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  19. 19.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  21. 21.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) purple
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red-purple
  29. 29.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) yellow
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  38. 38.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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