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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 659 · 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.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) green (d) purple
  3. 3.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and blue (b) yellow and red (c) blue and red (d) red and yellow
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) orange
  5. 5.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) purple
  7. 7.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  8. 8.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the secondary colours (b) the primary colours (c) brown and grey (d) the tertiary colours
  9. 9.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and blue (c) yellow and blue (d) yellow and red
  10. 10.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  11. 11.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  14. 14.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  16. 16.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  17. 17.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  18. 18.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and blue (d) red and blue
  20. 20.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  21. 21.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and red (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) red and yellow
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) red
  24. 24.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  25. 25.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  27. 27.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  29. 29.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  30. 30.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  31. 31.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  36. 36.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  38. 38.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs red. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and blue

Answer key

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

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