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