Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 813 · 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.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
2. 2.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and red (c) yellow and red (d) red and blue
3. 3.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
5. 5.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
7. 7.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) blue (d) yellow
10. 10.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
11. 11.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) green (d) red
13. 13.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
14. 14.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) brown and grey (c) the secondary colours (d) the primary colours
16. 16.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
17. 17.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and blue (d) blue and red
18. 18.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
19. 19.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
20. 20.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
21. 21.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
22. 22.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs red. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red
26. 26.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
30. 30.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) green (d) orange
32. 32.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
34. 34.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
35. 35.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
37. 37.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) blue and red (c) blue and yellow (d) red and yellow
38. 38.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) red (d) yellow

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