Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 950 · 40 questions

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?

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

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