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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 525 · 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: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  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 purple? (a) yellow and red (b) red and yellow (c) blue and red (d) blue and yellow
  6. 6.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) yellow and red (c) red and blue (d) blue and yellow
  7. 7.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) purple
  9. 9.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  10. 10.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  11. 11.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) green
  15. 15.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  17. 17.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  19. 19.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  22. 22.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  25. 25.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  26. 26.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) orange (d) red
  28. 28.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  30. 30.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  31. 31.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs red. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  35. 35.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) red and blue (d) yellow and blue
  36. 36.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  37. 37.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red
  40. 40.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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