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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 450 · 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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) green (c) red (d) blue-green
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) red-purple
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) blue (d) red-purple
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  14. 14.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) purple
  15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) green
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) red-orange (d) purple
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) purple
  23. 23.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  27. 27.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) grey (d) orange
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  32. 32.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) blue
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) blue-purple
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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