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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 818 · 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 of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) purple (d) orange
  2. 2.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  7. 7.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  10. 10.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  11. 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) red (d) blue
  12. 12.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  13. 13.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  15. 15.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  16. 16.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  17. 17.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  19. 19.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and yellow (c) blue and red (d) blue and yellow
  20. 20.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  21. 21.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) yellow and red (d) blue and red
  23. 23.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) yellow and red (c) red and blue (d) blue and yellow
  24. 24.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs red. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) blue (d) yellow
  26. 26.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  28. 28.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) red and blue (c) red and yellow (d) blue and yellow
  29. 29.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red (c) green (d) purple
  34. 34.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  35. 35.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  36. 36.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  39. 39.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  40. 40.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green

Answer key

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

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