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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 803 · 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) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) blue-green
  2. 2.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) orange (d) blue-green
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) red-orange
  4. 4.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  11. 11.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) red-purple (d) green
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) purple
  20. 20.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red-orange (d) red
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) orange
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red-orange
  24. 24.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  30. 30.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  35. 35.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) blue-green
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) red
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) blue (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) green (d) orange

Answer key

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

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