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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 713 · 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.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  4. 4.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) blue-purple
  6. 6.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) green
  10. 10.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) green (d) blue
  13. 13.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) blue-green
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) purple (d) yellow
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) yellow-orange
  17. 17.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) purple
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  20. 20.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) purple
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  23. 23.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  25. 25.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) grey
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  32. 32.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) purple
  35. 35.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) orange
  36. 36.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue (b) red (c) orange (d) green
  39. 39.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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