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