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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 302 · 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.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) red-purple
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) green
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  13. 13.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) grey
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  20. 20.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  21. 21.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  23. 23.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) neutral colours
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) purple
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) purple (d) red-purple
  28. 28.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) blue-purple
  29. 29.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
  36. 36.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red-purple
  38. 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  39. 39.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) yellow-orange

Answer key

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

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