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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 488 · 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 secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green
  2. 2.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue
  4. 4.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) purple (d) blue
  8. 8.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) purple (d) green
  10. 10.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
  17. 17.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and red (b) blue and yellow (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and blue
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) purple (d) red
  19. 19.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) red and blue (d) yellow and red
  20. 20.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  21. 21.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) orange
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green
  25. 25.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and red (c) red and blue (d) blue and yellow
  26. 26.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  27. 27.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  28. 28.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  30. 30.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  31. 31.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  32. 32.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  33. 33.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and blue (c) yellow and blue (d) red and yellow
  34. 34.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs red. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  37. 37.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  39. 39.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs red. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs blue. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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