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