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