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