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