Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 180 · 40 questions

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?

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

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