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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 405 · 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.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
  8. 8.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red (b) green (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) orange
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) blue
  14. 14.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  16. 16.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) purple (d) blue-green
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  23. 23.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) grey (d) red
  24. 24.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) yellow
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  29. 29.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  31. 31.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) red-purple

Answer key

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

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