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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 276 · 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) purple (b) green (c) red (d) orange
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  3. 3.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) green
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) blue
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) orange
  10. 10.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) green
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  15. 15.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) red (d) blue
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red-purple
  24. 24.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) orange (c) grey (d) blue-green
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  27. 27.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) orange
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  33. 33.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) red
  36. 36.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  39. 39.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue

Answer key

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

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