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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 638 · 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.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue
  3. 3.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  4. 4.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  5. 5.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and blue (c) blue and red (d) red and yellow
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  7. 7.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) orange
  9. 9.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  10. 10.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  12. 12.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  13. 13.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) blue and red (d) red and yellow
  14. 14.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  16. 16.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and yellow (b) red and blue (c) yellow and blue (d) blue and yellow
  17. 17.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  18. 18.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  19. 19.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) purple
  20. 20.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  21. 21.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and red
  22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  23. 23.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  25. 25.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  26. 26.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two secondary colours (b) black and white (c) two primary colours (d) three neutral colours
  28. 28.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  30. 30.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  33. 33.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  34. 34.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  37. 37.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  39. 39.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple

Answer key

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

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