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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 481 · 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: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  3. 3.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  4. 4.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  6. 6.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) red and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) yellow and red
  7. 7.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  10. 10.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  11. 11.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  12. 12.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  13. 13.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  14. 14.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  15. 15.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  18. 18.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  19. 19.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) orange
  23. 23.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  24. 24.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  25. 25.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) blue and red (c) yellow and blue (d) yellow and red
  26. 26.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  29. 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) purple (d) blue
  30. 30.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  31. 31.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) brown and grey (b) the tertiary colours (c) the secondary colours (d) the primary colours
  32. 32.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  33. 33.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and blue (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and red
  36. 36.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  37. 37.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  38. 38.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs yellow. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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