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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 749 · 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 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  5. 5.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  6. 6.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) orange
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) orange
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) green (c) blue (d) yellow-green
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) purple (d) red-orange
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) green
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  19. 19.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) red
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) red
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) red
  26. 26.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  28. 28.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) orange
  31. 31.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  32. 32.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) red
  34. 34.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  37. 37.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?

Answer key

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

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