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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 623 · 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 of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  2. 2.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  3. 3.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) red and yellow
  5. 5.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) yellow and red (d) red and blue
  6. 6.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  7. 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  8. 8.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  9. 9.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and yellow (b) yellow and red (c) red and blue (d) blue and red
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) orange (d) green
  11. 11.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) purple
  13. 13.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs red. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
  15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  16. 16.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  17. 17.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green
  19. 19.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  20. 20.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  21. 21.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) the primary colours (c) brown and grey (d) the secondary colours
  22. 22.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  23. 23.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  25. 25.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  26. 26.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  27. 27.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  28. 28.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  30. 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) purple (d) green
  31. 31.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and blue
  32. 32.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  33. 33.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and blue (c) yellow and red (d) yellow and blue
  34. 34.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow
  39. 39.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  40. 40.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow

Answer key

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

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