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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 776 · 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 primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  2. 2.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and blue (c) yellow and red (d) red and blue
  5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) orange
  6. 6.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  7. 7.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the secondary colours (b) the tertiary colours (c) brown and grey (d) the primary colours
  9. 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) blue (d) green
  10. 10.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  12. 12.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  13. 13.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  15. 15.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  16. 16.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green
  19. 19.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  21. 21.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  23. 23.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  24. 24.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) red and yellow (c) blue and yellow (d) yellow and red
  25. 25.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
  28. 28.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and yellow (b) red and blue (c) yellow and blue (d) blue and red
  30. 30.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  32. 32.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  33. 33.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
  35. 35.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  36. 36.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) green
  37. 37.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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