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