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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 261 · 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 of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  2. 2.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  4. 4.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  5. 5.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and red (c) blue and yellow (d) red and yellow
  6. 6.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and red (b) red and yellow (c) red and blue (d) yellow and blue
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue (d) red
  8. 8.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  11. 11.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  13. 13.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  14. 14.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  15. 15.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  16. 16.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  21. 21.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red (d) blue
  24. 24.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  25. 25.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  26. 26.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  27. 27.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  29. 29.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and red (c) blue and yellow (d) red and blue
  30. 30.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) red and blue (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and blue
  31. 31.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  33. 33.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  34. 34.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  35. 35.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  36. 36.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two secondary colours (b) three neutral colours (c) two primary colours (d) black and white
  37. 37.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  38. 38.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) green
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) orange

Answer key

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

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