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