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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 297 · 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.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  4. 4.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  6. 6.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and blue (d) blue and red
  7. 7.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  8. 8.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  9. 9.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and red (b) red and yellow (c) blue and red (d) blue and yellow
  10. 10.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and blue (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and blue
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  13. 13.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue
  15. 15.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  16. 16.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and yellow (b) yellow and red (c) red and blue (d) blue and yellow
  17. 17.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  18. 18.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  19. 19.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two secondary colours (b) black and white (c) two primary colours (d) three neutral colours
  23. 23.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  24. 24.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  25. 25.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  26. 26.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  27. 27.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  28. 28.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  29. 29.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  31. 31.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  32. 32.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  34. 34.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  36. 36.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  37. 37.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs red. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?

Answer key

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

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