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