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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 75 · 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 tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) red-orange (c) blue (d) purple
  3. 3.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) analogous colours (b) neutral colours (c) complementary colours (d) primary colours
  4. 4.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) orange
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
  8. 8.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  9. 9.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue-green (d) yellow
  11. 11.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) blue-green (c) red (d) grey
  12. 12.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  14. 14.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) blue-purple (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) green
  15. 15.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and green? (a) yellow-green (b) purple (c) yellow-orange (d) orange
  16. 16.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between red-orange and yellow-orange. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-green and blue-purple? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red-purple (d) red
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) secondary colour (c) primary colour
  20. 20.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-purple (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red-purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
  25. 25.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-purple (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) orange
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) blue
  28. 28.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  30. 30.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  31. 31.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  32. 32.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-orange (b) blue-purple (c) yellow (d) yellow-orange
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  35. 35.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: blue-green is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two tertiaries (b) two primaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  40. 40.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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