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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 975 · 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 colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) brown and grey (b) the secondary colours (c) the primary colours (d) the tertiary colours
  2. 2.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  3. 3.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  6. 6.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  7. 7.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
  9. 9.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs red. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow
  12. 12.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  13. 13.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
  14. 14.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and red (c) blue and yellow (d) blue and red
  15. 15.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and blue (b) yellow and red (c) red and yellow (d) blue and red
  16. 16.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs red. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) orange (d) yellow
  19. 19.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  20. 20.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  23. 23.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) yellow and red
  24. 24.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  25. 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) orange
  26. 26.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  27. 27.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) orange (d) green
  29. 29.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  31. 31.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and yellow (c) red and blue (d) blue and yellow
  33. 33.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  35. 35.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  37. 37.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) yellow (d) red
  38. 38.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  39. 39.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange (d) red
  40. 40.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?

Answer key

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

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