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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 821 · 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 secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) purple (d) blue
  2. 2.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
  4. 4.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and yellow (c) red and blue (d) blue and yellow
  5. 5.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  7. 7.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  8. 8.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  10. 10.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  11. 11.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) yellow (d) red
  14. 14.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  15. 15.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) red and yellow (d) red and blue
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) yellow (d) red
  18. 18.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  21. 21.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  23. 23.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  24. 24.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  25. 25.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and blue (d) red and blue
  26. 26.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  28. 28.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) orange
  33. 33.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  36. 36.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
  37. 37.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  39. 39.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) yellow (d) orange
  40. 40.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green

Answer key

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

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