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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 653 · 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 purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  2. 2.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
  4. 4.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  6. 6.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  7. 7.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) orange
  8. 8.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  11. 11.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two secondary colours (b) black and white (c) two primary colours (d) three neutral colours
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) red
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  15. 15.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) green
  16. 16.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  18. 18.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  20. 20.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) yellow and red (c) blue and yellow (d) red and blue
  21. 21.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  23. 23.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  24. 24.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  25. 25.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  27. 27.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  30. 30.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  32. 32.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  35. 35.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  37. 37.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  38. 38.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) blue and red (d) yellow and red
  39. 39.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange

Answer key

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

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