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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 583 · 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.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  2. 2.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  3. 3.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  4. 4.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  5. 5.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and yellow (c) blue and red (d) blue and yellow
  6. 6.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) red and blue (d) red and yellow
  7. 7.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  8. 8.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  9. 9.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) purple
  12. 12.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  13. 13.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  15. 15.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) brown and grey (c) the secondary colours (d) the primary colours
  16. 16.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  17. 17.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  19. 19.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  20. 20.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  23. 23.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and blue (d) red and blue
  26. 26.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  27. 27.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  29. 29.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  30. 30.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and red
  31. 31.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  32. 32.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) green
  34. 34.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  36. 36.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  38. 38.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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