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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 460 · 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.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  4. 4.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) red-orange
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) purple
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red (d) red-purple
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) orange (d) red-purple
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) green
  18. 18.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) red
  23. 23.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  24. 24.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-purple
  27. 27.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  32. 32.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) red
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
  35. 35.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  37. 37.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) red
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) red-orange
  40. 40.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?

Answer key

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

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