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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 728 · 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.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) green (d) blue-green
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  10. 10.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  12. 12.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  15. 15.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  17. 17.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-orange
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  20. 20.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) two primaries
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  22. 22.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  26. 26.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) red
  28. 28.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) neutral colours
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) purple
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) orange
  40. 40.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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