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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 934 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  2. 2.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  4. 4.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) black and white (c) a primary + a secondary (d) two primaries
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, orange sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) red-purple (c) red (d) yellow
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  8. 8.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) red (b) grey (c) blue-green (d) orange
  11. 11.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow-orange (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  13. 13.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) purple (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) blue-purple
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow-green (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  20. 20.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) blue (c) red (d) orange
  22. 22.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) purple
  23. 23.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  24. 24.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  26. 26.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  28. 28.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  29. 29.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
  31. 31.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) orange (d) purple
  33. 33.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  34. 34.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) primary colours (d) analogous colours
  35. 35.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  37. 37.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow-green (d) yellow
  39. 39.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) blue-green (d) purple
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) blue

Answer key

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

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