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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 168 · 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 of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
  2. 2.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  3. 3.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  4. 4.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) the secondary colours (c) the primary colours (d) brown and grey
  5. 5.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  6. 6.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  8. 8.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs red. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red (d) blue
  12. 12.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  14. 14.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  15. 15.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two secondary colours (b) black and white (c) three neutral colours (d) two primary colours
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue
  17. 17.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) purple
  19. 19.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) green
  22. 22.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  23. 23.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  24. 24.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  26. 26.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) yellow and red
  27. 27.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  28. 28.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and red (c) blue and yellow (d) red and blue
  29. 29.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  31. 31.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple
  33. 33.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and red (d) red and blue
  34. 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  35. 35.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  36. 36.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and red (b) red and yellow (c) yellow and blue (d) blue and yellow

Answer key

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

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