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