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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

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

Answer key

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

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