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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 257 · 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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) green
  2. 2.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red-purple
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  5. 5.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow-green
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  15. 15.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  17. 17.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) red (d) green
  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, yellow-green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) red (d) orange
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) purple (d) green
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  39. 39.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple

Answer key

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

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