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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 462 · 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: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) red (d) green
  3. 3.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  9. 9.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) red-orange
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) purple
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) green
  13. 13.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  15. 15.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) orange (d) red-purple
  20. 20.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) blue-green (d) orange
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) blue-purple (d) green
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) red-orange
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  28. 28.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  29. 29.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  30. 30.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) blue

Answer key

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

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