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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 893 · 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 neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) grey (d) red
  2. 2.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  3. 3.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) yellow-orange (d) red-orange
  5. 5.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) complementary colours
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) yellow-green (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) yellow-green (c) orange (d) yellow-orange
  8. 8.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  10. 10.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  12. 12.True or false: blue-purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) purple
  15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) blue-purple
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) red-purple (c) red-orange (d) green
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-orange sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) red
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-orange (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) red
  26. 26.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) yellow-orange (d) green
  27. 27.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-green (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  29. 29.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) yellow (b) red (c) red-orange (d) purple
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  36. 36.True or false: red-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow-orange (b) red-purple (c) purple (d) yellow-green
  39. 39.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) purple
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) green (d) yellow

Answer key

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

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