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