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