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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 748 · 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) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) red-purple
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
  8. 8.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) blue
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) red-orange
  11. 11.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) red
  16. 16.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two tertiaries (d) black and white
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow 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 yellow and green? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) green
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  20. 20.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) purple (d) red-purple
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) blue
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  25. 25.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  26. 26.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue
  29. 29.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  30. 30.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  32. 32.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  33. 33.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) red (d) purple
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) red (d) blue-green
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) blue (d) blue-green
  40. 40.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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