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 blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) green
- 3.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
- 4.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 5.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs red. (a) False (b) True
- 6.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs red. (a) True (b) False
- 7.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 8.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
- 9.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) red (d) yellow
- 11.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and blue (c) red and yellow (d) blue and yellow
- 12.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 13.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
- 14.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) three neutral colours (b) two primary colours (c) two secondary colours (d) black and white
- 15.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
- 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
- 17.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
- 19.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
- 20.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
- 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 23.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
- 24.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and red (c) blue and yellow (d) yellow and blue
- 25.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 26.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 27.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
- 28.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 29.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
- 30.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
- 31.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
- 32.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
- 33.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 34.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
- 35.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 36.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
- 37.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) blue
- 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) purple
- 39.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
- 40.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) orange
Answer key
- primary colour
- green
- False
- True
- False
- False
- False
- False
- True
- purple
- red and blue
- secondary colour
- 3
- two primary colours
- yellow
- orange
- False
- red
- True
- primary colour
- red
- yellow
- 2
- blue and red
- yellow
- False
- orange
- True
- blue
- green
- False
- red
- secondary colour
- 3
- False
- yellow
- green
- purple
- orange
- red
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