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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 833 · 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 secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  2. 2.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  3. 3.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  4. 4.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  7. 7.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  8. 8.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  11. 11.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  12. 12.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  13. 13.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and red (c) red and yellow (d) blue and yellow
  15. 15.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  16. 16.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) red and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) red and yellow
  17. 17.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and blue (d) yellow and red
  18. 18.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  19. 19.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) the secondary colours (c) brown and grey (d) the primary colours
  21. 21.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  25. 25.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  26. 26.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primary colours (b) three neutral colours (c) two secondary colours (d) black and white
  29. 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) purple
  30. 30.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) blue
  31. 31.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs red. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) red and blue
  33. 33.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  34. 34.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  35. 35.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) blue
  37. 37.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  40. 40.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) yellow (d) orange

Answer key

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

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