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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 627 · 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) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
  3. 3.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two primaries
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  7. 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  8. 8.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow-green
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  15. 15.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  18. 18.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue-green
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  20. 20.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  26. 26.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) red-orange
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) blue
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) blue-green
  32. 32.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) red (d) red-purple
  33. 33.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  34. 34.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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