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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 125 · 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.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) purple
  2. 2.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  3. 3.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) the primary colours (c) brown and grey (d) the secondary colours
  4. 4.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  5. 5.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  6. 6.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs red. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  8. 8.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and red (c) red and blue (d) blue and yellow
  10. 10.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  15. 15.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  16. 16.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  18. 18.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  19. 19.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  21. 21.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) orange (d) green
  24. 24.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  25. 25.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  26. 26.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) red (d) yellow
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) orange
  29. 29.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  30. 30.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  32. 32.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  33. 33.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
  36. 36.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  37. 37.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and red (c) yellow and red (d) red and yellow

Answer key

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

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