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