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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 340 · 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 tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  6. 6.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  11. 11.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
  13. 13.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) purple
  14. 14.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) yellow-green
  17. 17.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) green (d) red-orange
  20. 20.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  24. 24.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) red (d) orange
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) purple
  33. 33.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) purple
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  37. 37.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  38. 38.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  39. 39.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) blue-purple

Answer key

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

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