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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 871 · 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.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) red-orange
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) yellow-green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) blue-purple (d) purple
  6. 6.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) red (d) grey
  9. 9.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow-green (d) blue-green
  12. 12.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  14. 14.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  16. 16.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue-green (d) red
  17. 17.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  18. 18.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) orange
  22. 22.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow-green
  23. 23.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) yellow-green (b) blue (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  27. 27.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) purple
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) orange
  31. 31.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  34. 34.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  35. 35.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) black and white (c) two tertiaries (d) a primary + a secondary
  38. 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red-orange (b) green (c) blue-green (d) yellow-green
  39. 39.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) red-purple
  40. 40.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?

Answer key

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

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