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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 770 · 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 red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) red
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red-orange (d) blue
  3. 3.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  4. 4.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  6. 6.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) green
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) red-orange (d) blue-green
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  9. 9.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) primary colours (c) neutral colours (d) complementary colours
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) red
  11. 11.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) blue (d) green
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  19. 19.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) green
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) yellow
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) red (d) purple
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.True or false: red-purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow (b) red (c) red-purple (d) blue-green

Answer key

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

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