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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 487 · 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 of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) blue
  2. 2.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  4. 4.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) orange
  7. 7.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) blue
  9. 9.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the secondary colours (b) the tertiary colours (c) the primary colours (d) brown and grey
  12. 12.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primary colours (c) three neutral colours (d) two secondary colours
  13. 13.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) blue and red (c) yellow and red (d) yellow and blue
  14. 14.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  15. 15.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  16. 16.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  18. 18.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) blue and red (c) yellow and red (d) red and blue
  19. 19.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  20. 20.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  21. 21.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  22. 22.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and red (c) red and blue (d) red and yellow
  23. 23.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  24. 24.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  25. 25.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  26. 26.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  28. 28.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) yellow and red (c) red and yellow (d) red and blue
  30. 30.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) red and yellow (d) blue and red
  32. 32.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs red. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  35. 35.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs red. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  37. 37.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  38. 38.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  39. 39.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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