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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 894 · 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.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  4. 4.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red-purple (d) red
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue (d) red
  6. 6.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
  8. 8.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) complementary colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  9. 9.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  10. 10.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) red (c) purple (d) green
  11. 11.True or false: orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: yellow-green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow-orange
  16. 16.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) green (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  19. 19.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) grey (d) blue-green
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-purple sits between purple and red. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
  22. 22.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) yellow
  25. 25.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow
  26. 26.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) yellow-orange (d) blue
  27. 27.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) orange
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  31. 31.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  32. 32.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between yellow and green. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  34. 34.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) a primary + a secondary (c) black and white (d) two tertiaries
  35. 35.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  39. 39.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) blue-purple
  40. 40.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow

Answer key

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

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