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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 315 · 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) yellow-green (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) yellow (d) red
  6. 6.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) red
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) red (d) orange
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  10. 10.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) red-purple (d) orange
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) purple
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  20. 20.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) green
  25. 25.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) purple
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) red-purple
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  38. 38.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue
  40. 40.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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