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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 454 · 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? yellow + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  2. 2.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  3. 3.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  4. 4.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  6. 6.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  10. 10.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  11. 11.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  13. 13.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  14. 14.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) red and blue (d) blue and red
  15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  16. 16.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) red
  20. 20.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  23. 23.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
  27. 27.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  30. 30.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) green (d) yellow
  32. 32.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) purple
  33. 33.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  34. 34.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  35. 35.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  36. 36.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the secondary colours (b) the tertiary colours (c) brown and grey (d) the primary colours
  37. 37.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  38. 38.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  40. 40.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow

Answer key

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

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