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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 555 · 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.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) red
  4. 4.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) red (d) blue
  5. 5.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  6. 6.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) green
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) yellow
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) red-orange (d) purple
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  15. 15.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  17. 17.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) red (d) purple
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  19. 19.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  20. 20.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) purple
  22. 22.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) red (d) yellow
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  29. 29.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red-purple
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) purple (d) red

Answer key

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

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