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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 422 · 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.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  3. 3.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and red (d) red and yellow
  4. 4.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) the primary colours (c) the secondary colours (d) brown and grey
  5. 5.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  6. 6.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  10. 10.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and red (c) yellow and blue (d) blue and yellow
  12. 12.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  13. 13.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  14. 14.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red
  16. 16.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and red (b) red and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) red and yellow
  17. 17.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  18. 18.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  21. 21.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs red. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  24. 24.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  26. 26.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  27. 27.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  28. 28.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  30. 30.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow
  35. 35.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  36. 36.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) blue
  38. 38.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?

Answer key

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

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