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