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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 174 · 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.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) green (d) blue-green
  2. 2.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  5. 5.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) blue
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) red-purple
  17. 17.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  18. 18.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  22. 22.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  25. 25.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green
  28. 28.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  29. 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) red
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  32. 32.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) blue
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) blue (d) orange
  35. 35.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  39. 39.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  40. 40.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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