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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 649 · 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 neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) orange (d) blue-green
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) purple (d) red
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) blue-green (d) blue
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) green (d) blue
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  13. 13.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) purple
  14. 14.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  19. 19.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) green
  20. 20.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  22. 22.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) yellow (d) red
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) green (d) orange
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) blue-purple
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) red
  31. 31.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  32. 32.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue (c) purple (d) green
  36. 36.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) red-purple
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour

Answer key

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

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