Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 6 · 40 questions

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?

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

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