Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 318 · 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.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
3. 3.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
4. 4.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
5. 5.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs red. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
8. 8.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
10. 10.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
11. 11.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the secondary colours (b) the tertiary colours (c) brown and grey (d) the primary colours
12. 12.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) blue
15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) red
16. 16.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue (d) purple
18. 18.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primary colours (b) three neutral colours (c) black and white (d) two secondary colours
21. 21.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
22. 22.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
23. 23.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
25. 25.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and blue
27. 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) purple (d) yellow
28. 28.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
30. 30.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) yellow and red (c) blue and red (d) blue and yellow
33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
34. 34.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue
37. 37.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
38. 38.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
40. 40.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False

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