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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 585 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue-green
  2. 2.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) orange
  4. 4.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  5. 5.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  7. 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) red
  8. 8.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) red
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) red
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  12. 12.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  17. 17.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  21. 21.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) orange
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  24. 24.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) green
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  29. 29.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  31. 31.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) yellow
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red-purple
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-purple (b) blue (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) red (d) purple
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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