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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 640 · 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.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) three neutral colours (b) black and white (c) two secondary colours (d) two primary colours
  2. 2.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the primary colours (b) the secondary colours (c) brown and grey (d) the tertiary colours
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  4. 4.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  5. 5.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) red and blue
  6. 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  7. 7.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  8. 8.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) blue and red
  9. 9.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  10. 10.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  11. 11.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  12. 12.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  13. 13.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  14. 14.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  15. 15.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  18. 18.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  19. 19.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  20. 20.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  22. 22.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and red (b) red and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) blue and yellow
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
  25. 25.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) blue (c) purple (d) green
  27. 27.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  29. 29.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and red (c) yellow and blue (d) red and blue
  30. 30.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  31. 31.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  32. 32.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  33. 33.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  34. 34.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs red. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  37. 37.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  38. 38.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  40. 40.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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