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