Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 312 · 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.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) green (d) blue
3. 3.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
4. 4.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
6. 6.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
7. 7.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
8. 8.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the secondary colours (b) the tertiary colours (c) the primary colours (d) brown and grey
9. 9.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) orange
12. 12.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
13. 13.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and blue
14. 14.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) three neutral colours (b) black and white (c) two secondary colours (d) two primary colours
15. 15.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) yellow and red (d) red and yellow
16. 16.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
17. 17.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
19. 19.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
20. 20.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
21. 21.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
23. 23.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
24. 24.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) yellow and red (c) blue and red (d) red and blue
27. 27.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
28. 28.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green
30. 30.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
31. 31.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
33. 33.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
34. 34.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs red. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
39. 39.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False

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