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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 388 · 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.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  4. 4.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) blue-green
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  8. 8.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) red
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) purple (d) green
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  14. 14.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  17. 17.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  18. 18.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  22. 22.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) red
  27. 27.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  30. 30.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) red-purple (d) green
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) blue
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) green (d) purple
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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