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