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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 909 · 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.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) primary colours (b) complementary colours (c) neutral colours (d) analogous colours
  2. 2.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow
  4. 4.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow-green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow
  7. 7.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  8. 8.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow-orange (c) red (d) orange
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  11. 11.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) green
  14. 14.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  15. 15.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow-orange (d) purple
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) purple (d) red
  18. 18.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  19. 19.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) red-orange (d) orange
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue and purple. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  27. 27.True or false: yellow-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue-purple (c) red (d) blue
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) red-orange
  31. 31.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) orange (d) grey
  32. 32.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue-purple (d) yellow-green
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) red (d) yellow-orange
  34. 34.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) orange (b) red-purple (c) green (d) red-orange
  36. 36.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) yellow
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue-green
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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