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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 459 · 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 green. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) red and yellow (d) blue and red
  3. 3.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  4. 4.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) three neutral colours (b) black and white (c) two secondary colours (d) two primary colours
  5. 5.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
  7. 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue
  9. 9.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  11. 11.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs red. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) orange
  14. 14.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
  15. 15.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) red and yellow
  16. 16.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) yellow and red (c) red and blue (d) blue and yellow
  17. 17.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  18. 18.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  19. 19.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  21. 21.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and blue (c) yellow and red (d) red and yellow
  22. 22.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  24. 24.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs red. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  28. 28.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  29. 29.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) blue and red (c) red and yellow (d) blue and yellow
  30. 30.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  31. 31.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  33. 33.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red
  34. 34.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  35. 35.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) blue and red
  36. 36.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  40. 40.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?

Answer key

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

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