Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 515 · 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.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
3. 3.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
5. 5.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) blue and red (c) yellow and red (d) blue and yellow
6. 6.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
8. 8.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
10. 10.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) blue
12. 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
13. 13.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
14. 14.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the secondary colours (b) the tertiary colours (c) the primary colours (d) brown and grey
16. 16.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
18. 18.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) blue (d) yellow
21. 21.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
22. 22.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs red. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
24. 24.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs red. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red
27. 27.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primary colours (b) two secondary colours (c) black and white (d) three neutral colours
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
30. 30.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and red (c) yellow and blue (d) red and yellow
31. 31.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
34. 34.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
35. 35.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
36. 36.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) yellow and red (d) blue and yellow
37. 37.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
38. 38.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
40. 40.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple

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