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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 673 · 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 red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  2. 2.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  3. 3.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  4. 4.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  6. 6.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  9. 9.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  10. 10.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) red
  13. 13.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  15. 15.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  16. 16.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and red (c) blue and yellow (d) yellow and blue
  17. 17.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  18. 18.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and yellow (c) blue and red (d) red and blue
  21. 21.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  22. 22.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  23. 23.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs red. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) orange (d) blue
  25. 25.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and yellow (b) red and blue (c) yellow and red (d) blue and yellow
  26. 26.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two secondary colours (c) three neutral colours (d) two primary colours
  27. 27.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green
  30. 30.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) orange
  33. 33.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  34. 34.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  35. 35.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) purple (d) yellow
  36. 36.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  37. 37.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  38. 38.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  39. 39.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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