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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 366 · 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.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue
  3. 3.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) black and white
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) orange
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) red-purple
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) blue-green
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  19. 19.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) purple
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) yellow
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) green
  33. 33.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  36. 36.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  40. 40.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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