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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 997 · 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 secondary colours are there?
  2. 2.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  3. 3.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  4. 4.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  6. 6.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) red (d) yellow
  9. 9.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
  11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
  12. 12.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
  13. 13.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and red (c) blue and yellow (d) red and yellow
  14. 14.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  15. 15.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  16. 16.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and yellow (c) red and blue (d) yellow and blue
  17. 17.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  18. 18.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs red. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
  22. 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  23. 23.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two secondary colours (b) three neutral colours (c) black and white (d) two primary colours
  24. 24.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  25. 25.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) brown and grey (b) the primary colours (c) the tertiary colours (d) the secondary colours
  26. 26.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  28. 28.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  29. 29.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and red (c) yellow and blue (d) blue and red
  30. 30.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and red (c) yellow and blue (d) red and blue
  31. 31.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) orange
  32. 32.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
  33. 33.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  34. 34.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  35. 35.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  36. 36.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red (d) blue
  37. 37.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  38. 38.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
  40. 40.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) purple (d) orange

Answer key

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

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