Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 50 · 40 questions

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?

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

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