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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 288 · 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.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red (d) grey
  5. 5.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) blue
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  11. 11.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  13. 13.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  14. 14.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) 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.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) green (d) blue-green
  23. 23.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  25. 25.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) blue-green
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  28. 28.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
  30. 30.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
  34. 34.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) yellow
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) blue
  39. 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) green
  40. 40.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) green

Answer key

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

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