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