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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 305 · 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) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  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 is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) green
  6. 6.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue (d) red-purple
  7. 7.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  9. 9.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  12. 12.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) blue
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) orange
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) blue
  18. 18.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) green
  21. 21.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  24. 24.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  26. 26.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) purple
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  29. 29.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  32. 32.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow-green
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  37. 37.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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