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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 201 · 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 purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  2. 2.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  4. 4.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  6. 6.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and blue (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and red
  7. 7.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and red (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and blue
  8. 8.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  10. 10.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) red
  12. 12.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
  16. 16.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  18. 18.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primary colours (b) black and white (c) two secondary colours (d) three neutral colours
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow
  22. 22.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  24. 24.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and blue (c) yellow and blue (d) yellow and red
  26. 26.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  27. 27.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) blue
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  30. 30.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue
  32. 32.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  33. 33.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  34. 34.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  37. 37.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  38. 38.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  40. 40.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs red. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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