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