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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 572 · 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, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  6. 6.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) green
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  12. 12.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  14. 14.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue
  16. 16.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  20. 20.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) blue-green
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue (b) red (c) red-orange (d) orange
  24. 24.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) red
  26. 26.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) green (d) yellow-green
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  30. 30.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) grey (d) red
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) green
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  38. 38.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) green
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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