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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 990 · 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.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
  4. 4.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  5. 5.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
  7. 7.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  8. 8.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  9. 9.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  12. 12.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  13. 13.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) red and blue (d) yellow and red
  14. 14.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  16. 16.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  18. 18.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) yellow (d) purple
  19. 19.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  20. 20.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  21. 21.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and blue (c) red and yellow (d) red and blue
  23. 23.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  25. 25.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and yellow (c) blue and yellow (d) blue and red
  26. 26.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
  27. 27.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  28. 28.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) yellow and red (b) red and blue (c) red and yellow (d) blue and yellow
  30. 30.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue (d) purple
  32. 32.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) purple (d) blue
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
  35. 35.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  37. 37.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) yellow (d) blue
  38. 38.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  39. 39.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour

Answer key

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

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