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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 170 · 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, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  3. 3.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) orange
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) green (d) red
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) orange (d) blue-green
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  8. 8.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) blue-green (d) orange
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) green
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) green
  12. 12.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  14. 14.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) purple (d) green
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) green
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  27. 27.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  32. 32.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) red
  37. 37.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) green (d) blue
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) purple
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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