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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 610 · 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 blue + ? = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  3. 3.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) orange (d) purple
  6. 6.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  7. 7.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  8. 8.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  9. 9.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  10. 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) orange
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue
  12. 12.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  13. 13.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  14. 14.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  16. 16.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) blue and red
  17. 17.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  20. 20.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  21. 21.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  23. 23.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) blue and red (d) red and yellow
  27. 27.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  29. 29.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  30. 30.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  33. 33.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) blue and red (c) yellow and blue (d) red and yellow
  34. 34.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs red. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  39. 39.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow

Answer key

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

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