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