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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 341 · 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 of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) purple
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  5. 5.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red
  11. 11.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  14. 14.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  16. 16.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  18. 18.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  19. 19.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) orange
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) green
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  24. 24.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) orange (d) red
  27. 27.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) blue-green
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  30. 30.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) purple
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) orange
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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