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