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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 217 · 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 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  2. 2.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red-orange
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) orange (b) blue (c) green (d) yellow
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) red (d) blue
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) green
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  11. 11.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) red-orange
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  16. 16.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  19. 19.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) green
  23. 23.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red-orange
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) orange
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  31. 31.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  32. 32.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) orange (d) red
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  40. 40.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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