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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 236 · 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 the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) red (d) blue
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) blue-green
  6. 6.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red
  8. 8.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) blue (c) purple (d) green
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) blue (d) red-orange
  14. 14.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) blue
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) green
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) red (d) blue-purple
  18. 18.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) red
  20. 20.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) orange (d) blue
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) orange
  27. 27.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) green (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) orange
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) blue-green
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  35. 35.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) blue-green (c) red (d) orange
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange

Answer key

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

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