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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 785 · 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: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  3. 3.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  5. 5.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  6. 6.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  10. 10.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  12. 12.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  14. 14.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) red (d) orange
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  20. 20.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) red (c) red-orange (d) orange
  23. 23.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) red
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) blue-green
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) green
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  31. 31.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) red
  33. 33.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  36. 36.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) red-orange (d) purple

Answer key

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

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