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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 83 · 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, blue-purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) orange
  3. 3.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) grey (d) blue-green
  4. 4.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  8. 8.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two tertiaries
  9. 9.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) green (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  11. 11.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  12. 12.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) green
  14. 14.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  16. 16.True or false: purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) green (d) blue
  20. 20.True or false: yellow-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) blue-green
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  24. 24.True or false: blue-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red-orange
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red-orange (d) red
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  33. 33.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) green (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) blue
  36. 36.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red-orange (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  40. 40.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) red-purple

Answer key

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

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