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