Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 253 · 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.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
2. 2.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
3. 3.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
6. 6.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
7. 7.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs red. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
10. 10.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
11. 11.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) blue and red
12. 12.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and blue (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and red
13. 13.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) orange (d) red
16. 16.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and blue (d) red and yellow
19. 19.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and yellow (b) blue and red (c) yellow and red (d) red and blue
20. 20.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
21. 21.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
23. 23.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) orange (d) green
27. 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue (d) red
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red
29. 29.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
31. 31.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
32. 32.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
34. 34.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
35. 35.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the secondary colours (b) brown and grey (c) the primary colours (d) the tertiary colours
37. 37.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
38. 38.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) green (d) yellow
40. 40.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple

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