Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 768 · 40 questions

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?

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

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