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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 486 · 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.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  2. 2.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  3. 3.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  4. 4.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  5. 5.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) red and blue (c) yellow and blue (d) yellow and red
  7. 7.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  8. 8.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) orange (d) red
  10. 10.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  12. 12.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  13. 13.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and red (d) blue and yellow
  14. 14.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and blue (c) red and blue (d) yellow and red
  15. 15.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  18. 18.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs red. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and blue (c) yellow and red (d) blue and red
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue
  21. 21.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  24. 24.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  25. 25.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) red and blue (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and blue
  27. 27.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  31. 31.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  34. 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) orange
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) purple (d) red
  36. 36.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  38. 38.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  39. 39.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  40. 40.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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