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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 687 · 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 green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  2. 2.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  3. 3.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  4. 4.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  7. 7.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and blue (d) yellow and red
  8. 8.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) red and yellow (d) blue and red
  10. 10.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  11. 11.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  12. 12.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  13. 13.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  14. 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
  15. 15.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  16. 16.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  17. 17.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and red (b) blue and yellow (c) red and blue (d) red and yellow
  18. 18.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and red (c) yellow and blue (d) blue and yellow
  19. 19.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  21. 21.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) purple
  24. 24.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) three neutral colours (b) black and white (c) two primary colours (d) two secondary colours
  25. 25.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) brown and grey (b) the tertiary colours (c) the primary colours (d) the secondary colours
  26. 26.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and blue (b) yellow and red (c) red and blue (d) blue and red
  27. 27.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  28. 28.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) orange
  30. 30.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  31. 31.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  33. 33.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  40. 40.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue

Answer key

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

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