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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 536 · 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) purple (b) red-orange (c) green (d) orange
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) green (d) blue-purple
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
  6. 6.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  9. 9.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  11. 11.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) blue
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) red
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) red (d) blue-purple
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow
  19. 19.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) blue-green
  21. 21.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  27. 27.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) orange
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) red (d) blue-green
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  37. 37.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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