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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 844 · 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 of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) blue-purple (d) blue-green
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  4. 4.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) orange (b) blue (c) green (d) purple
  5. 5.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) red-orange (d) blue
  7. 7.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) analogous colours (c) primary colours (d) complementary colours
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  9. 9.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) orange
  13. 13.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) a primary + a secondary (c) two primaries (d) two tertiaries
  15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  16. 16.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between green and blue. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) blue
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) red
  24. 24.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: blue-purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) orange (c) blue-green (d) red-purple
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) green
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  30. 30.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  31. 31.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) orange
  32. 32.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow-green (c) purple (d) orange
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  34. 34.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) green
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  39. 39.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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