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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 11 · 40 questions
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Artist's tip (Two make one): Primary colours: red, yellow, blue — they cannot be mixed from other paints. Secondary colours: orange = red + yellow, green = blue + yellow, purple = red + blue. To find a missing colour, ask: which two primaries are inside this secondary colour?

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  1. 1.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  2. 2.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  4. 4.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) red and yellow
  5. 5.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  8. 8.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  10. 10.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  11. 11.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  12. 12.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  13. 13.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  14. 14.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  16. 16.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) green
  18. 18.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  20. 20.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  21. 21.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  22. 22.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  23. 23.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  24. 24.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  26. 26.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  27. 27.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  29. 29.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue (d) red
  31. 31.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primary colours (b) black and white (c) three neutral colours (d) two secondary colours
  32. 32.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  33. 33.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) red and yellow (c) blue and yellow (d) yellow and blue
  39. 39.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  40. 40.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue

Answer key

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

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