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