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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 690 · 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.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) three neutral colours (b) two secondary colours (c) two primary colours (d) black and white
  2. 2.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  3. 3.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  4. 4.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  5. 5.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  7. 7.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  10. 10.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) red and blue
  11. 11.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  12. 12.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) red and yellow (c) blue and yellow (d) blue and red
  13. 13.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  14. 14.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) blue
  16. 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  17. 17.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  18. 18.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  19. 19.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  20. 20.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
  23. 23.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
  26. 26.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the secondary colours (b) brown and grey (c) the primary colours (d) the tertiary colours
  27. 27.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  29. 29.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and red (b) blue and yellow (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and red
  31. 31.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  32. 32.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  35. 35.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  36. 36.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) yellow and red (c) blue and yellow (d) red and blue
  38. 38.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  39. 39.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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