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