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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 170 · 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.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  2. 2.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  4. 4.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  5. 5.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  6. 6.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs red. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  10. 10.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  12. 12.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primary colours (b) two secondary colours (c) three neutral colours (d) black and white
  13. 13.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  15. 15.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  16. 16.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and red (c) yellow and red (d) blue and yellow
  18. 18.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  19. 19.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and blue (c) yellow and red (d) yellow and blue
  20. 20.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  22. 22.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  23. 23.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  26. 26.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  28. 28.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  30. 30.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  31. 31.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) brown and grey (b) the tertiary colours (c) the secondary colours (d) the primary colours
  32. 32.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and blue (c) red and yellow (d) red and blue
  35. 35.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  36. 36.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  38. 38.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs red. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange

Answer key

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

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