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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 175 · 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 red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) green
  3. 3.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  6. 6.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  7. 7.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  9. 9.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  11. 11.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) red and yellow
  13. 13.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  15. 15.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  17. 17.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  18. 18.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  19. 19.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and red (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and red (d) red and blue
  22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  23. 23.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  24. 24.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) three neutral colours (c) two secondary colours (d) two primary colours
  27. 27.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) orange (d) blue
  29. 29.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  30. 30.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  31. 31.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and red (c) red and blue (d) yellow and blue
  33. 33.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  35. 35.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  37. 37.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  38. 38.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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