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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 472 · 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 (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) purple (b) red-purple (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  4. 4.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  5. 5.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  10. 10.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  12. 12.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) orange
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) red-purple
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  19. 19.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  21. 21.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) yellow-green
  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) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue
  26. 26.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) purple
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  36. 36.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) orange
  38. 38.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) blue-green
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) blue-purple

Answer key

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

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