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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 825 · 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) orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
  2. 2.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) brown and grey (b) the secondary colours (c) the tertiary colours (d) the primary colours
  3. 3.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  4. 4.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  5. 5.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  7. 7.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) red and blue (d) red and yellow
  8. 8.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  9. 9.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  10. 10.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) orange
  12. 12.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  15. 15.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  18. 18.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  19. 19.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
  21. 21.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) purple
  23. 23.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  24. 24.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green
  27. 27.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  29. 29.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) purple (d) blue
  31. 31.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and red (b) yellow and blue (c) red and yellow (d) blue and red
  32. 32.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  34. 34.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  35. 35.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  37. 37.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs red. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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