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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 70 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  3. 3.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) orange
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) orange
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
  10. 10.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) orange
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  12. 12.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) red (d) red-purple
  14. 14.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) blue
  16. 16.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  18. 18.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two tertiaries (c) two primaries (d) black and white
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  21. 21.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) red-purple (c) green (d) red-orange
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  26. 26.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) green
  35. 35.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  37. 37.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) red
  39. 39.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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