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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 429 · 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.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow
  3. 3.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue
  5. 5.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  6. 6.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  7. 7.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  10. 10.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) red and blue (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and blue
  11. 11.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  12. 12.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  13. 13.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  15. 15.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  16. 16.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  18. 18.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and red (b) red and blue (c) yellow and blue (d) yellow and red
  19. 19.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  20. 20.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  23. 23.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  26. 26.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  30. 30.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  31. 31.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  34. 34.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  35. 35.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  36. 36.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  38. 38.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow

Answer key

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

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