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.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
- 2.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
- 3.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 4.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 5.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
- 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
- 7.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
- 8.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
- 9.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 10.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
- 11.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primary colours (b) two secondary colours (c) black and white (d) three neutral colours
- 12.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red
- 14.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) blue (d) orange
- 15.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 16.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
- 17.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) red and yellow (d) blue and red
- 18.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 19.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 20.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 21.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 22.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
- 23.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
- 24.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and yellow (b) red and blue (c) blue and yellow (d) yellow and red
- 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) green (c) blue (d) red
- 26.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 27.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
- 28.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 29.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
- 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) yellow (d) purple
- 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) orange
- 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
- 33.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
- 34.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) purple (d) blue
- 36.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 37.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
- 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) red
- 39.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 40.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
Answer key
- False
- False
- True
- primary colour
- True
- blue
- True
- blue
- primary colour
- yellow
- two primary colours
- primary colour
- green
- blue
- True
- False
- red and yellow
- False
- False
- blue
- True
- False
- yellow
- blue and yellow
- green
- secondary colour
- False
- False
- purple
- yellow
- orange
- yellow
- blue
- False
- purple
- secondary colour
- 3
- red
- red
- False
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