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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 457 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple
  2. 2.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  3. 3.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  4. 4.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue (d) purple
  6. 6.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  7. 7.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  8. 8.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  9. 9.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  10. 10.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) blue and red (d) red and yellow
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) purple
  13. 13.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs red. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) purple
  15. 15.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  16. 16.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  17. 17.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue
  19. 19.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs red. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  21. 21.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  23. 23.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  24. 24.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) red and yellow (c) blue and yellow (d) blue and red
  27. 27.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) red and blue (c) yellow and blue (d) red and yellow
  28. 28.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  31. 31.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  32. 32.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  33. 33.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  35. 35.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  36. 36.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) green
  38. 38.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  40. 40.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow

Answer key

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

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