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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 350 · 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 tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) orange
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow-green
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  5. 5.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue (d) purple
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  8. 8.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) green (d) orange
  12. 12.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  14. 14.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) orange
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) blue
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) purple
  19. 19.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) blue
  21. 21.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red-orange
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) green (d) red-purple
  34. 34.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) green
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour

Answer key

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

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