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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 430 · 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 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) yellow-green
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) red
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue
  5. 5.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  6. 6.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) green
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  10. 10.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  12. 12.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) green
  16. 16.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  18. 18.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) blue
  20. 20.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) red-orange
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) red
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  32. 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  34. 34.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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