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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 332 · 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.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) purple (d) blue
  7. 7.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) red-purple
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) purple
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) red (d) green
  18. 18.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  19. 19.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  20. 20.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-green (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) green
  27. 27.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) orange (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  31. 31.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  33. 33.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  34. 34.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  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.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue

Answer key

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

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