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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 540 · 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.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) orange
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) red-purple
  12. 12.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) blue-green
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) yellow (d) orange
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) green (b) blue (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) red-purple
  18. 18.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  25. 25.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) green (d) purple
  26. 26.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  29. 29.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow
  30. 30.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) yellow
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  39. 39.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours

Answer key

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

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