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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 485 · 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.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) green (d) red
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  6. 6.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  8. 8.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) red-orange
  10. 10.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  12. 12.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) orange
  18. 18.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) green (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) red
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  34. 34.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) red-orange
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow
  37. 37.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) purple
  38. 38.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) blue-green (c) red (d) orange

Answer key

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

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