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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 336 · 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.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) red
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) orange (d) red
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) blue-green
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  8. 8.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  10. 10.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  13. 13.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red (d) blue
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) red
  17. 17.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue (d) red-purple
  19. 19.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) blue-green
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  23. 23.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) purple
  29. 29.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  32. 32.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) green (d) red
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  37. 37.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  38. 38.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) blue-green
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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