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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 42 · 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 secondary colours are there?
  2. 2.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) red and blue (d) yellow and red
  3. 3.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  4. 4.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  5. 5.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  6. 6.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  7. 7.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue
  9. 9.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  11. 11.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) purple
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
  14. 14.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and red (c) red and yellow (d) blue and yellow
  15. 15.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  17. 17.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  19. 19.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs red. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  22. 22.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  23. 23.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  25. 25.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  26. 26.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  27. 27.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red
  30. 30.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  32. 32.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  34. 34.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  36. 36.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  37. 37.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  39. 39.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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