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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 181 · 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 tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  2. 2.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) blue (c) green (d) purple
  5. 5.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) red-orange
  8. 8.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  11. 11.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) red
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) blue-purple
  16. 16.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) red-orange
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) orange
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) red (d) red-purple
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) blue (d) red-purple
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) orange
  26. 26.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) green (d) red-orange
  29. 29.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue-green (d) orange
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) orange
  34. 34.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) red
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) purple
  38. 38.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  40. 40.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) green

Answer key

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

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