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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 330 · 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 are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  2. 2.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  3. 3.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and blue (b) blue and red (c) red and yellow (d) blue and yellow
  6. 6.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) green (d) red
  7. 7.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  8. 8.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  9. 9.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  10. 10.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) red and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) yellow and red
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) orange (d) blue
  14. 14.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and yellow (c) red and blue (d) yellow and red
  15. 15.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  16. 16.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  18. 18.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  19. 19.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) yellow and red (c) red and blue (d) blue and red
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue
  21. 21.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow
  26. 26.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  27. 27.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  28. 28.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue
  32. 32.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  34. 34.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  36. 36.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) brown and grey (b) the tertiary colours (c) the primary colours (d) the secondary colours
  37. 37.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  38. 38.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  39. 39.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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