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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 723 · 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: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) primary colours
  4. 4.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) grey
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) red
  6. 6.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  9. 9.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  10. 10.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) red
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) red-orange (d) blue
  13. 13.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) green
  16. 16.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) yellow
  19. 19.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  20. 20.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  22. 22.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) purple
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  28. 28.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) blue-purple
  29. 29.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  31. 31.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) green (d) red
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) green
  34. 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) yellow
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  36. 36.True or false: yellow-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  38. 38.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange

Answer key

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

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