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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 326 · 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, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  3. 3.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
  5. 5.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  7. 7.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) orange
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) orange
  14. 14.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  15. 15.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) yellow
  17. 17.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  18. 18.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) red-purple
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) green
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red-orange
  32. 32.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  33. 33.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) red-orange (d) red-purple

Answer key

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

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