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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 568 · 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, red-purple sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  5. 5.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) red (c) orange (d) green
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  13. 13.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  14. 14.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
  18. 18.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue-green
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  24. 24.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) blue
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) blue-purple
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  31. 31.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue-green
  33. 33.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) green
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) green

Answer key

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

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