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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 792 · 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, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) red-purple (c) green (d) blue
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) green (d) blue
  12. 12.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  14. 14.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) green (d) blue
  16. 16.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) red
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  19. 19.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow (b) red (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  20. 20.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) analogous colours (c) primary colours (d) neutral colours
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  22. 22.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  25. 25.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) yellow-orange
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  28. 28.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) red-orange
  29. 29.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  30. 30.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) red (d) orange
  31. 31.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) orange (d) blue
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) red (d) green
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red-purple
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue-purple (b) blue (c) yellow-green (d) purple

Answer key

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

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