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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 498 · 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) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  2. 2.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and red (d) yellow and red
  3. 3.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  4. 4.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  5. 5.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  6. 6.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the secondary colours (b) the primary colours (c) the tertiary colours (d) brown and grey
  7. 7.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  9. 9.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  11. 11.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  12. 12.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  14. 14.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  16. 16.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  17. 17.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) purple (d) blue
  20. 20.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) orange (d) green
  22. 22.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  26. 26.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  28. 28.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  30. 30.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  31. 31.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  33. 33.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and blue (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and red
  34. 34.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  35. 35.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  36. 36.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  38. 38.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and red (b) red and yellow (c) blue and yellow (d) red and blue
  40. 40.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour

Answer key

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

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