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