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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 847 · 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.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) green (d) yellow
  3. 3.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and red (b) red and blue (c) yellow and blue (d) yellow and red
  4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) purple
  5. 5.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  6. 6.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the primary colours (b) the secondary colours (c) the tertiary colours (d) brown and grey
  7. 7.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  8. 8.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  9. 9.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  10. 10.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and blue (c) yellow and blue (d) red and yellow
  12. 12.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  13. 13.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  15. 15.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) red and blue (d) red and yellow
  17. 17.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  19. 19.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  20. 20.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  21. 21.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
  23. 23.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  24. 24.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  26. 26.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  27. 27.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  34. 34.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  35. 35.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  37. 37.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and red
  38. 38.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  39. 39.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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