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