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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 661 · 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: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) orange
  3. 3.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) green (d) orange
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) red-orange
  7. 7.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) orange
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) blue-purple
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  11. 11.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  14. 14.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) orange
  15. 15.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  16. 16.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) blue-green (d) blue
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) black and white
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) yellow-green
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) red
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) red-orange (d) orange
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red
  32. 32.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) purple
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) red-purple
  36. 36.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) purple
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) red

Answer key

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

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