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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 769 · 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.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  2. 2.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  3. 3.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  5. 5.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  6. 6.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
  7. 7.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  8. 8.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and blue (c) red and blue (d) yellow and red
  9. 9.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  10. 10.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  12. 12.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and red (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and red (d) blue and yellow
  13. 13.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  14. 14.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  15. 15.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) yellow and red (d) blue and yellow
  16. 16.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  18. 18.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  19. 19.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and yellow (c) red and blue (d) yellow and red
  20. 20.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  23. 23.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  24. 24.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  25. 25.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  27. 27.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and blue
  28. 28.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  29. 29.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) blue (d) yellow
  31. 31.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and yellow (c) blue and yellow (d) red and blue
  32. 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  33. 33.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
  34. 34.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  36. 36.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  39. 39.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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