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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 984 · 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 are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) purple
  3. 3.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) the secondary colours (c) the primary colours (d) brown and grey
  4. 4.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  5. 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  6. 6.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  7. 7.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  8. 8.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  10. 10.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) red and yellow
  12. 12.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  13. 13.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  14. 14.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  15. 15.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) yellow (c) orange (d) green
  17. 17.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  18. 18.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs red. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  24. 24.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  25. 25.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and red (d) red and yellow
  26. 26.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) red and blue
  27. 27.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  28. 28.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  29. 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) blue (d) red
  30. 30.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  33. 33.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and red (c) red and yellow (d) blue and yellow
  34. 34.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  35. 35.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
  37. 37.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  38. 38.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple

Answer key

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

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