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