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.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
- 2.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 3.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 4.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and red (b) red and blue (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and blue
- 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) purple (d) green
- 6.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
- 7.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
- 8.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
- 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) purple
- 10.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
- 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) purple
- 12.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
- 13.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 14.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
- 15.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs blue. (a) True (b) False
- 16.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 17.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) orange (c) purple
- 18.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and blue (b) red and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) blue and yellow
- 19.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
- 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) green (d) red
- 21.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
- 22.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) purple (d) orange
- 23.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
- 24.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
- 25.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) green (d) purple
- 26.True or false: blue is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) purple
- 28.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
- 29.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) black and white (b) two secondary colours (c) two primary colours (d) three neutral colours
- 30.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
- 31.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 32.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes purple. (a) True (b) False
- 33.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 34.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) yellow (c) blue (d) red
- 35.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 36.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
- 37.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
- 38.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
- 39.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
- 40.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and yellow (c) yellow and red (d) blue and red
Answer key
- True
- True
- primary colour
- red and yellow
- red
- 2
- green
- False
- red
- 3
- purple
- purple
- secondary colour
- True
- True
- False
- green
- red and blue
- False
- green
- False
- blue
- False
- False
- yellow
- False
- purple
- blue
- two primary colours
- yellow
- secondary colour
- False
- False
- orange
- red
- 3
- orange
- orange
- red
- blue and yellow
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