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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 584 · 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-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) blue (c) green (d) purple
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  5. 5.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  10. 10.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) red
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) green
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) purple (d) green
  17. 17.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  19. 19.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  23. 23.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) red (d) blue-purple
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) purple
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red-purple
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) green
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) red
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  38. 38.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) green
  40. 40.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) orange

Answer key

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

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