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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 461 · 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, red-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) purple
  6. 6.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) red
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) red (d) yellow-green
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  12. 12.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red
  16. 16.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) grey (d) red
  17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  18. 18.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  21. 21.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) red
  23. 23.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  25. 25.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
  26. 26.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) red
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) purple (b) red (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  31. 31.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) green
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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