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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 266 · 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 yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) blue-green (d) blue
  2. 2.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  4. 4.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  9. 9.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  11. 11.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) orange (c) red (d) blue-green
  12. 12.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) red
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) blue
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  19. 19.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) red (d) purple
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) red-purple (d) orange
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) orange
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  40. 40.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple

Answer key

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

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