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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 152 · 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 colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  4. 4.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) green (d) orange
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) orange
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  10. 10.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) green
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  15. 15.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  21. 21.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  25. 25.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) red
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) red
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) yellow-green
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  39. 39.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) grey (d) red

Answer key

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

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