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