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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 424 · 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, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  3. 3.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) blue-green
  5. 5.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) red-orange
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) yellow
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) purple (b) red (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  17. 17.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  19. 19.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
  20. 20.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) red-purple (d) yellow-green
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) green
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) red
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) red
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
  37. 37.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  39. 39.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour

Answer key

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

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