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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 299 · 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: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  3. 3.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  4. 4.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  13. 13.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) red-orange
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  21. 21.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) black and white
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) purple
  24. 24.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) red
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) red-purple
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) purple
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  32. 32.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) red (d) blue-green
  33. 33.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue (b) purple (c) orange (d) red-orange
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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