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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 376 · 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.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) three neutral colours (b) two secondary colours (c) black and white (d) two primary colours
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
  3. 3.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs red. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) green
  7. 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) green
  8. 8.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and red (b) red and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) yellow and blue
  9. 9.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) purple (d) blue
  11. 11.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  14. 14.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  17. 17.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  18. 18.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  19. 19.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) blue and red (c) red and blue (d) red and yellow
  20. 20.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  22. 22.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) blue
  24. 24.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) purple (d) green
  27. 27.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  28. 28.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  29. 29.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) blue and red (c) yellow and blue (d) red and yellow
  32. 32.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
  35. 35.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  37. 37.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) yellow and blue (c) red and blue (d) red and yellow
  38. 38.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  40. 40.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and red (b) red and yellow (c) red and blue (d) blue and yellow

Answer key

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

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