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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 531 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
  3. 3.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red
  5. 5.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  6. 6.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) yellow (d) blue
  7. 7.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  8. 8.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  10. 10.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  11. 11.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  12. 12.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  13. 13.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and red (c) red and yellow (d) blue and yellow
  14. 14.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  16. 16.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) blue (d) yellow
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  19. 19.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  20. 20.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs red. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  23. 23.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and red (d) yellow and red
  24. 24.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  25. 25.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  28. 28.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  30. 30.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
  33. 33.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  35. 35.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  39. 39.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two secondary colours (c) two primary colours (d) three neutral colours
  40. 40.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?

Answer key

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

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