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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 672 · 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) yellow (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  3. 3.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  4. 4.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  5. 5.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  6. 6.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  8. 8.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  10. 10.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  11. 11.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow
  14. 14.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  15. 15.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) the secondary colours (c) the primary colours (d) brown and grey
  17. 17.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  19. 19.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  22. 22.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and red (c) yellow and blue (d) blue and yellow
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  24. 24.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  25. 25.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  27. 27.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  28. 28.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  29. 29.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  31. 31.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) purple
  32. 32.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  33. 33.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) yellow and red (c) blue and yellow (d) red and blue
  37. 37.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and yellow (b) red and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) yellow and blue

Answer key

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

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