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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 884 · 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 sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) blue-green (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  3. 3.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) red-purple
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) yellow-orange
  6. 6.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  7. 7.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  8. 8.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  11. 11.True or false: red-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
  13. 13.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) red-purple
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  16. 16.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) orange
  18. 18.True or false: red-purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue-green (d) blue
  21. 21.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  22. 22.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) green
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow and green. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between red and orange. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) red-orange (d) purple
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  29. 29.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-green (c) red (d) blue-green
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) red-purple (d) purple
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  34. 34.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) orange (c) grey (d) blue-green
  36. 36.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow-green
  39. 39.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) orange

Answer key

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

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