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 two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and red (b) yellow and red (c) red and blue (d) yellow and blue
- 2.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
- 3.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
- 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) red (d) purple
- 5.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
- 6.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 7.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
- 8.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
- 9.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 10.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
- 11.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 12.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 13.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
- 14.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
- 15.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
- 16.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 17.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
- 18.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
- 19.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
- 20.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) the primary colours (c) the secondary colours (d) brown and grey
- 21.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) purple (d) green
- 22.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
- 23.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) red and yellow (d) red and blue
- 24.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 25.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
- 26.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 27.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs red. (a) False (b) True
- 28.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 29.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 30.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) blue (c) purple (d) orange
- 31.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
- 32.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
- 33.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) orange (c) yellow (d) red
- 35.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
- 36.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs red. (a) True (b) False
- 37.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
- 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) red (c) green (d) blue
- 39.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
- 40.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
Answer key
- yellow and blue
- False
- 2
- red
- True
- True
- red
- blue
- True
- 3
- secondary colour
- True
- False
- yellow
- False
- True
- False
- 3
- purple
- the primary colours
- yellow
- yellow
- red and blue
- secondary colour
- red
- False
- False
- False
- False
- blue
- yellow
- True
- primary colour
- orange
- yellow
- False
- green
- green
- True
- orange
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