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