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