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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 603 · 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.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  2. 2.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  3. 3.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  5. 5.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  7. 7.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  8. 8.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  9. 9.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  10. 10.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  12. 12.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  14. 14.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  15. 15.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  16. 16.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  18. 18.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and blue
  19. 19.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) green
  22. 22.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and blue (c) yellow and red (d) red and yellow
  23. 23.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs red. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.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
  25. 25.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
  27. 27.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  29. 29.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  30. 30.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) purple
  31. 31.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  32. 32.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and blue (b) red and yellow (c) yellow and blue (d) blue and red
  33. 33.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and red (c) yellow and blue (d) blue and red
  34. 34.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) purple
  39. 39.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  40. 40.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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