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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 208 · 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, blue-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) orange
  8. 8.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  10. 10.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) red-orange
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue-green (d) red
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) green
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) red-purple (d) red
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) orange
  25. 25.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) red-purple
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  28. 28.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) orange (d) red-orange
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) red
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) green
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) grey (d) orange
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple

Answer key

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

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