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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 663 · 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 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) green
  3. 3.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  6. 6.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) red (d) blue
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  16. 16.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  20. 20.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) orange
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) blue
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) green
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  33. 33.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  34. 34.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) red-orange
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  37. 37.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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