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: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
- 2.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) green
- 3.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
- 4.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
- 5.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 6.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 7.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
- 8.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red
- 10.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) orange
- 11.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) yellow and red (d) blue and yellow
- 12.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
- 13.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 14.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 15.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 16.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
- 17.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 19.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and blue (d) red and blue
- 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue (c) orange (d) yellow
- 21.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 22.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
- 23.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
- 24.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
- 25.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 26.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
- 27.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
- 29.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
- 30.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 31.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
- 32.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow
- 33.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 34.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and red (d) red and yellow
- 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) purple
- 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) red (d) green
- 37.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
- 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) purple
- 39.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
- 40.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- True
- yellow
- green
- orange
- blue
- True
- purple
- True
- green
- orange
- red and blue
- True
- False
- False
- True
- True
- False
- primary colour
- yellow and red
- orange
- False
- purple
- True
- True
- secondary colour
- False
- blue
- blue
- 2
- secondary colour
- orange
- yellow
- True
- red and yellow
- purple
- red
- False
- purple
- 3
- False
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