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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 521 · 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 primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  3. 3.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  8. 8.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) green (d) yellow
  11. 11.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  12. 12.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  13. 13.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  14. 14.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  15. 15.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  18. 18.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) the secondary colours (c) brown and grey (d) the primary colours
  19. 19.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  22. 22.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  23. 23.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) red and yellow (d) blue and red
  24. 24.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  25. 25.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  27. 27.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  28. 28.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  29. 29.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  30. 30.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  31. 31.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and red
  32. 32.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  34. 34.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  35. 35.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  36. 36.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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