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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 970 · 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) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
  2. 2.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  3. 3.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  4. 4.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) yellow and red (d) red and blue
  5. 5.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue
  8. 8.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  9. 9.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) green (d) yellow
  10. 10.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  11. 11.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  12. 12.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  14. 14.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and blue (d) red and blue
  15. 15.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  19. 19.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  23. 23.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  27. 27.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and red (c) blue and yellow (d) yellow and blue
  28. 28.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  30. 30.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
  32. 32.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  33. 33.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) blue and red (c) yellow and red (d) blue and yellow
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) red (d) blue
  35. 35.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) purple
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  37. 37.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  38. 38.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  39. 39.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  40. 40.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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