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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 574 · 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 two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) yellow and blue (c) red and yellow (d) blue and red
  2. 2.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  3. 3.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  4. 4.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs red. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) blue (d) purple
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  7. 7.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red
  11. 11.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) red and blue (c) blue and red (d) blue and yellow
  14. 14.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  17. 17.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  18. 18.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  20. 20.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and blue (b) red and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) yellow and blue
  21. 21.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  23. 23.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) blue and red (d) red and yellow
  24. 24.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  25. 25.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  27. 27.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  29. 29.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) red (d) yellow
  32. 32.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  33. 33.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and blue (d) red and blue
  35. 35.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  36. 36.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) the secondary colours (c) the primary colours (d) brown and grey
  37. 37.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  38. 38.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  39. 39.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue

Answer key

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

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