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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 475 · 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.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  2. 2.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) orange
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red
  4. 4.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) green
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  12. 12.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  14. 14.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) blue
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  17. 17.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) red-orange
  19. 19.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
  20. 20.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) red-orange
  23. 23.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) orange
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) grey
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  28. 28.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  30. 30.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  32. 32.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) green (d) red-purple
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) green (d) orange

Answer key

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

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