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