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