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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 373 · 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, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow-green
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  7. 7.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  10. 10.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) red-purple
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  15. 15.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) green (d) blue-green
  17. 17.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  20. 20.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) red-purple (d) red
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  26. 26.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  31. 31.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  36. 36.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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