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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 253 · 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 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) red
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) blue
  5. 5.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) red-purple
  9. 9.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  12. 12.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  14. 14.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  15. 15.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) red
  23. 23.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) blue-green (d) orange
  24. 24.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  25. 25.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) blue
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) red-purple
  29. 29.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  32. 32.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) yellow-green
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) red
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) purple
  38. 38.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) orange

Answer key

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

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