Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 381 · 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.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
2. 2.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple
5. 5.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
6. 6.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
7. 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) green (d) purple
8. 8.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
9. 9.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
11. 11.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
12. 12.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
13. 13.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and red
14. 14.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
16. 16.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) red and yellow (d) blue and red
17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) orange (d) green
18. 18.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
19. 19.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and yellow (c) red and blue (d) yellow and red
22. 22.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) purple (d) yellow
24. 24.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
25. 25.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
26. 26.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
30. 30.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
31. 31.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
32. 32.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
34. 34.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
35. 35.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
36. 36.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
38. 38.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True

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