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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 575 · 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 of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) green
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  3. 3.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  7. 7.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) yellow
  9. 9.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  12. 12.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  14. 14.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  15. 15.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) red-orange
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) purple (d) red-orange
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) red (d) red-purple
  24. 24.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  28. 28.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) green (d) yellow
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) purple (d) green
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) red-purple
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red-orange
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) red-purple
  38. 38.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) blue-green (d) orange
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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