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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 814 · 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 simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  2. 2.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) red (d) blue-green
  4. 4.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  5. 5.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  7. 7.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue-purple
  13. 13.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) yellow-orange
  14. 14.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) purple
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  19. 19.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  23. 23.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) yellow-orange
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  26. 26.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  27. 27.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) blue-purple
  31. 31.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  35. 35.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  38. 38.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue
  40. 40.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) grey (b) red (c) blue-green (d) orange

Answer key

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

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