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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 82 · 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, yellow-orange sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow-green (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  3. 3.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red (d) orange
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) blue-green
  6. 6.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  8. 8.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  9. 9.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  12. 12.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between green and blue. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red-purple
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  18. 18.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) primary colours (d) complementary colours
  19. 19.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) grey (c) orange (d) red
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-green
  23. 23.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) green
  25. 25.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) green
  26. 26.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) a primary + a secondary (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  27. 27.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  31. 31.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) red (d) blue-purple
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) blue (d) red-orange
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red (c) purple (d) green
  40. 40.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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