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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 250 · 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.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  3. 3.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  4. 4.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  5. 5.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  6. 6.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow
  8. 8.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  10. 10.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs red. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  13. 13.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) red and blue
  14. 14.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  15. 15.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the secondary colours (b) the tertiary colours (c) brown and grey (d) the primary colours
  17. 17.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  18. 18.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  19. 19.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  20. 20.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  21. 21.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  23. 23.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and red (b) red and blue (c) blue and red (d) blue and yellow
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow
  25. 25.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two secondary colours (b) black and white (c) two primary colours (d) three neutral colours
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  27. 27.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  29. 29.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  30. 30.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  31. 31.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  32. 32.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  33. 33.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and yellow (c) blue and red (d) red and blue
  35. 35.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  38. 38.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  39. 39.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple

Answer key

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

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