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: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 2.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 3.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
- 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
- 5.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
- 6.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the secondary colours (b) brown and grey (c) the tertiary colours (d) the primary colours
- 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) purple (d) yellow
- 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange (d) yellow
- 9.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
- 10.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
- 11.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
- 12.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
- 13.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and blue (b) blue and red (c) red and yellow (d) blue and yellow
- 14.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
- 15.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 16.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) red
- 17.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
- 18.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
- 19.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and red (c) yellow and blue (d) red and blue
- 20.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
- 21.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
- 22.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 23.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
- 24.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
- 25.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
- 26.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 27.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
- 28.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
- 29.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and red
- 30.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
- 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
- 32.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
- 33.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
- 34.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) orange (d) blue
- 36.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
- 37.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) red and blue
- 38.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
- 39.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
- 40.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- False
- True
- 2
- blue
- True
- the primary colours
- purple
- yellow
- yellow
- red
- orange
- blue
- red and yellow
- 3
- blue
- red
- yellow
- True
- yellow and blue
- False
- False
- False
- blue
- False
- True
- True
- yellow
- purple
- blue and yellow
- False
- red
- yellow
- red
- primary colour
- orange
- True
- red and blue
- False
- green
- False
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