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