Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 785 · 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.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
2. 2.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two primary colours (c) two secondary colours (d) three neutral colours
3. 3.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
4. 4.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
6. 6.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
8. 8.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
14. 14.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
17. 17.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
18. 18.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
19. 19.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) red
22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
23. 23.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) green (d) yellow
25. 25.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
26. 26.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
31. 31.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) blue and red
32. 32.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
33. 33.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
35. 35.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
36. 36.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
38. 38.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
39. 39.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
40. 40.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) red and yellow (c) blue and yellow (d) red and blue

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