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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 383 · 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.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) orange (d) red
  5. 5.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) orange
  7. 7.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) green (d) red
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) red
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  15. 15.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  16. 16.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  17. 17.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) blue (d) green
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue-green (d) purple
  31. 31.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) purple (d) red-orange
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) red-purple
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) red-purple (d) blue
  39. 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  40. 40.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours

Answer key

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

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