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 primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
- 2.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) brown and grey (c) the secondary colours (d) the primary colours
- 3.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 4.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
- 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
- 6.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) yellow (c) orange (d) purple
- 7.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 8.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 9.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) red and yellow (d) blue and red
- 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) purple (c) red (d) blue
- 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple (d) yellow
- 12.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
- 14.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
- 15.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
- 16.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
- 17.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primary colours (b) two secondary colours (c) three neutral colours (d) black and white
- 18.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
- 20.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
- 21.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
- 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
- 23.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
- 24.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) red and blue (d) yellow and red
- 25.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
- 26.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
- 27.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
- 28.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 29.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
- 30.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
- 31.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
- 32.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
- 33.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red
- 35.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
- 36.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
- 37.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
- 38.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
- 39.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) orange
Answer key
- yellow
- the primary colours
- primary colour
- False
- red
- yellow
- True
- secondary colour
- red and yellow
- purple
- yellow
- True
- orange
- orange
- blue
- purple
- two primary colours
- blue
- blue
- yellow
- red
- yellow
- False
- red and blue
- False
- 3
- False
- False
- blue
- 2
- red
- orange
- False
- green
- purple
- True
- False
- False
- True
- orange
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