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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 440 · 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.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  2. 2.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  3. 3.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  5. 5.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  7. 7.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  10. 10.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  11. 11.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and yellow (c) blue and red (d) red and blue
  12. 12.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  14. 14.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and red (b) red and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) blue and red
  16. 16.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  19. 19.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  21. 21.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  22. 22.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  23. 23.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  24. 24.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
  27. 27.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  28. 28.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  29. 29.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and red (c) yellow and blue (d) blue and yellow
  30. 30.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  32. 32.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow
  37. 37.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  39. 39.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  40. 40.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple

Answer key

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

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