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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 711 · 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.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) blue (d) orange
  2. 2.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red (d) blue
  4. 4.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs red. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) blue
  6. 6.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  7. 7.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  8. 8.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green
  10. 10.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.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
  12. 12.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  15. 15.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) red and blue (d) yellow and red
  17. 17.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and red
  20. 20.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow
  24. 24.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) red and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) yellow and red
  25. 25.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  26. 26.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  27. 27.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  28. 28.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  29. 29.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and red (d) blue and yellow
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) green
  31. 31.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  33. 33.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  34. 34.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  36. 36.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  37. 37.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  39. 39.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour

Answer key

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

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