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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 842 · 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) orange (b) blue (c) purple (d) green
  2. 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
  3. 3.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  4. 4.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  5. 5.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the primary colours (b) brown and grey (c) the secondary colours (d) the tertiary colours
  6. 6.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  9. 9.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  11. 11.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  14. 14.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  15. 15.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) yellow and red (d) red and yellow
  17. 17.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  18. 18.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  20. 20.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
  24. 24.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  26. 26.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  27. 27.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  28. 28.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  30. 30.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) orange
  33. 33.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue
  35. 35.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  37. 37.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and red (c) blue and red (d) yellow and blue
  38. 38.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  39. 39.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow

Answer key

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

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