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