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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 815 · 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.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  3. 3.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) three neutral colours (b) black and white (c) two primary colours (d) two secondary colours
  5. 5.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red (d) blue
  6. 6.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  7. 7.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) the primary colours (c) brown and grey (d) the secondary colours
  8. 8.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  9. 9.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  11. 11.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  13. 13.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  15. 15.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  17. 17.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
  18. 18.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  19. 19.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  22. 22.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) yellow and red (c) red and blue (d) red and yellow
  23. 23.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  24. 24.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and red
  25. 25.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  26. 26.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) red (d) blue
  29. 29.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  30. 30.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  32. 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) yellow
  33. 33.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  35. 35.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  36. 36.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  38. 38.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and yellow (c) blue and red (d) red and blue
  39. 39.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  40. 40.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green

Answer key

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

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