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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 540 · 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: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  3. 3.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  4. 4.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  6. 6.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) blue and red
  7. 7.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primary colours (b) three neutral colours (c) black and white (d) two secondary colours
  8. 8.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) red and blue
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) orange
  11. 11.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  13. 13.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  15. 15.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  17. 17.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  19. 19.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow
  22. 22.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  23. 23.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and red
  26. 26.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
  27. 27.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  29. 29.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  30. 30.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  31. 31.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) red and blue (c) yellow and blue (d) red and yellow
  33. 33.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  34. 34.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  38. 38.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  40. 40.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red

Answer key

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

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