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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 501 · 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.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) green
  3. 3.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  5. 5.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  6. 6.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  8. 8.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  13. 13.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  15. 15.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  16. 16.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs red. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and red (c) blue and yellow (d) red and yellow
  18. 18.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red
  21. 21.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  23. 23.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  25. 25.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  26. 26.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  27. 27.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) red and blue (c) yellow and blue (d) red and yellow
  29. 29.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  30. 30.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  33. 33.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  35. 35.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  36. 36.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and yellow (b) yellow and red (c) yellow and blue (d) blue and red
  37. 37.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and red (b) red and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) yellow and blue
  39. 39.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue

Answer key

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

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