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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 509 · 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: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) red (d) yellow
  4. 4.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  5. 5.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) red and blue
  8. 8.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) purple
  10. 10.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  12. 12.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue
  15. 15.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  16. 16.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  18. 18.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  19. 19.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  20. 20.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  21. 21.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs red. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow
  24. 24.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) orange (d) red
  25. 25.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  26. 26.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  27. 27.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and yellow (c) blue and yellow (d) red and blue
  28. 28.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) blue and red (d) red and yellow
  29. 29.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) yellow and red (c) blue and yellow (d) blue and red
  31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) orange
  32. 32.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  33. 33.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  34. 34.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  35. 35.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  36. 36.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  38. 38.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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