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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 721 · 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: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) blue (d) green
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) blue-green (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) red
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  6. 6.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  9. 9.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) orange
  12. 12.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  15. 15.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) red-orange
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) orange (d) blue
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  22. 22.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue (d) purple
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  24. 24.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  25. 25.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  30. 30.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) blue-green
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue-green
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  36. 36.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) red-purple (d) blue
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  39. 39.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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