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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 470 · 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.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) complementary colours
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  5. 5.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) red (d) blue
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) blue-green
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) blue-purple
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) green
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) blue-green (d) orange
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) purple
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) red-orange
  24. 24.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) red
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) green
  27. 27.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) blue-green
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) purple
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  36. 36.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) blue (d) red-purple
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) green
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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