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 is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
- 2.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 3.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 4.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
- 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) orange
- 6.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
- 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
- 8.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 9.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
- 10.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) blue and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) yellow and red (d) blue and red
- 11.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
- 12.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 13.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
- 14.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
- 15.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) brown and grey (b) the tertiary colours (c) the secondary colours (d) the primary colours
- 16.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
- 17.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
- 18.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 19.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
- 20.Which secondary colour has NO red in it? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
- 21.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
- 23.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 24.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 25.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) green
- 26.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
- 27.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
- 28.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
- 29.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) purple (d) red
- 31.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
- 32.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs red. (a) True (b) False
- 33.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
- 34.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
- 35.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) blue and red (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and blue
- 36.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
- 37.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
- 38.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
- 39.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
- 40.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) red and blue (d) yellow and red
Answer key
- yellow
- True
- yellow
- blue
- orange
- green
- blue
- True
- red
- blue and red
- yellow
- True
- red
- purple
- the primary colours
- True
- 3
- primary colour
- True
- green
- blue
- green
- yellow
- False
- green
- True
- 2
- purple
- green
- purple
- True
- False
- purple
- True
- red and yellow
- red
- orange
- False
- yellow
- red and blue
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