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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 518 · 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.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) purple (d) green
  3. 3.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  4. 4.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  5. 5.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  6. 6.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) orange
  8. 8.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  9. 9.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) red
  11. 11.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  13. 13.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  17. 17.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) red and yellow
  18. 18.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) blue and red (d) yellow and red
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue (c) purple (d) green
  22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) purple (d) red
  24. 24.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  25. 25.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  26. 26.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and red (d) red and blue
  28. 28.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) yellow and red (c) blue and red (d) red and yellow
  29. 29.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  30. 30.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  31. 31.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) brown and grey (b) the tertiary colours (c) the secondary colours (d) the primary colours
  32. 32.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) purple (d) green
  35. 35.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  37. 37.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) purple

Answer key

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

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