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