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