Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

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

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