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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 650 · 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.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  3. 3.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  4. 4.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) red
  7. 7.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) orange (c) grey (d) blue-green
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  14. 14.True or false: blue-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) green
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) blue
  19. 19.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) red (d) green
  21. 21.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) red (d) yellow
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  31. 31.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) red-orange
  33. 33.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  35. 35.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) red (d) blue-purple
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) red-orange
  40. 40.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours

Answer key

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

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