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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 224 · 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.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  2. 2.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  4. 4.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) blue and red (d) red and yellow
  5. 5.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) purple (d) red
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
  9. 9.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  11. 11.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and red (b) red and yellow (c) yellow and blue (d) red and blue
  12. 12.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  16. 16.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  17. 17.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  18. 18.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  19. 19.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  21. 21.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  22. 22.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  23. 23.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  24. 24.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  26. 26.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  27. 27.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  28. 28.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  29. 29.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue (d) purple
  31. 31.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs red. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and blue (b) red and yellow (c) blue and yellow (d) yellow and red
  33. 33.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  35. 35.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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