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