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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 510 · 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.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  2. 2.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple
  4. 4.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  5. 5.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  6. 6.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  7. 7.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  8. 8.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and red (c) blue and yellow (d) red and yellow
  10. 10.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) orange
  12. 12.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  14. 14.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  15. 15.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  17. 17.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and blue (b) blue and red (c) blue and yellow (d) yellow and red
  18. 18.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  21. 21.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  23. 23.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and red (c) blue and yellow (d) red and yellow
  27. 27.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) red and blue (d) yellow and red
  28. 28.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  29. 29.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  32. 32.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and blue (c) red and yellow (d) blue and red
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) yellow
  35. 35.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two secondary colours (b) black and white (c) two primary colours (d) three neutral colours
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  38. 38.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  39. 39.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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