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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 507 · 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.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) red
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  4. 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) green
  5. 5.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) red and blue (c) yellow and red (d) yellow and blue
  7. 7.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) red and yellow (c) blue and yellow (d) red and blue
  8. 8.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  10. 10.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  15. 15.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  17. 17.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  19. 19.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow
  23. 23.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) green
  26. 26.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  27. 27.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  28. 28.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  29. 29.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) blue and red
  30. 30.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  31. 31.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  32. 32.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the secondary colours (b) the tertiary colours (c) brown and grey (d) the primary colours
  33. 33.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  34. 34.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  36. 36.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and red (c) blue and yellow (d) red and yellow
  39. 39.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and blue (b) blue and red (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and blue
  40. 40.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?

Answer key

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

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