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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 364 · 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 neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) orange (d) blue-green
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) green
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) red-orange
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) yellow-green
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  17. 17.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  18. 18.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  20. 20.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) red
  23. 23.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  24. 24.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) red
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) orange
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) blue
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red-orange (d) purple
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) green
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  35. 35.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) purple
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  40. 40.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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