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