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