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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 495 · 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.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  2. 2.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) red and blue (c) yellow and red (d) blue and yellow
  3. 3.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  5. 5.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  6. 6.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  7. 7.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  9. 9.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  11. 11.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow
  14. 14.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  17. 17.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  19. 19.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  20. 20.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  24. 24.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  25. 25.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  27. 27.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  28. 28.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow
  30. 30.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  31. 31.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  33. 33.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  34. 34.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) the secondary colours (c) the primary colours (d) brown and grey
  35. 35.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  36. 36.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow
  39. 39.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two secondary colours (b) three neutral colours (c) black and white (d) two primary colours
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) blue (d) red

Answer key

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

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