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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 218 · 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.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) black and white
  2. 2.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  12. 12.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  14. 14.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) purple (d) green
  16. 16.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  18. 18.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) red
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) blue
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) red
  31. 31.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  33. 33.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) purple
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) blue
  36. 36.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  38. 38.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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