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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 310 · 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 secondary colours are there?
  2. 2.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow
  4. 4.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and yellow (c) red and blue (d) yellow and red
  6. 6.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  7. 7.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  8. 8.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  9. 9.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  10. 10.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  11. 11.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) purple
  13. 13.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  14. 14.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  15. 15.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  16. 16.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  17. 17.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) green (d) orange
  21. 21.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  23. 23.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  24. 24.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  25. 25.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  27. 27.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs red. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  30. 30.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) purple
  32. 32.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  33. 33.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
  36. 36.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and blue (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and red
  39. 39.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and blue (c) yellow and red (d) yellow and blue

Answer key

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

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