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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 492 · 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 tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
  4. 4.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) orange
  5. 5.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  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 is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) grey (d) blue-green
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  15. 15.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) green
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) green
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  21. 21.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  23. 23.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue-green
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  27. 27.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  31. 31.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) orange
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) red
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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