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) green (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
- 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) red (d) purple
- 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
- 4.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
- 5.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
- 6.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
- 7.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
- 8.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 9.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
- 10.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 11.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
- 12.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 13.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) green (d) purple
- 14.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
- 15.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 16.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs red. (a) True (b) False
- 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
- 18.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
- 19.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 20.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) orange
- 21.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 22.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
- 23.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 24.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
- 25.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and yellow (c) red and blue (d) yellow and red
- 26.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 27.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
- 28.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
- 29.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) green (d) yellow
- 30.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) yellow and red (c) red and blue (d) yellow and blue
- 31.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
- 32.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
- 33.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the primary colours (b) the secondary colours (c) brown and grey (d) the tertiary colours
- 34.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
- 35.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs red. (a) True (b) False
- 36.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
- 37.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 38.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
- 39.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs red. (a) True (b) False
- 40.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
Answer key
- green
- red
- orange
- purple
- orange
- blue
- 3
- False
- True
- False
- orange
- False
- blue
- red
- secondary colour
- False
- blue
- True
- True
- orange
- True
- purple
- True
- green
- blue and yellow
- primary colour
- True
- 2
- green
- yellow and blue
- purple
- yellow
- the primary colours
- False
- False
- False
- True
- blue
- True
- secondary colour
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