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) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) red and blue (d) yellow and blue
- 2.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs yellow. (a) False (b) True
- 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) red (c) yellow (d) blue
- 4.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
- 5.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) orange
- 6.True or false: mixing blue and yellow paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
- 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) red (c) orange (d) purple
- 8.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
- 9.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
- 10.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 11.True or false: red is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 12.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 13.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and blue (b) red and blue (c) blue and red (d) red and yellow
- 14.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 15.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
- 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow
- 17.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 18.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
- 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) purple (d) blue
- 20.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs yellow. (a) True (b) False
- 21.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 22.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
- 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
- 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) green (c) yellow (d) red
- 25.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
- 26.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
- 27.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) red (d) blue
- 28.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red
- 29.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
- 30.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
- 31.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
- 32.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
- 33.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
- 34.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) yellow (d) green
- 35.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 36.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
- 37.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
- 38.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) red and blue (b) yellow and red (c) red and yellow (d) yellow and blue
- 39.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = purple needs red. (a) True (b) False
- 40.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) purple
Answer key
- red and blue
- True
- orange
- red
- blue
- False
- red
- 2
- orange
- False
- True
- secondary colour
- red and yellow
- secondary colour
- blue
- yellow
- False
- orange
- purple
- True
- True
- purple
- red
- green
- red
- orange
- orange
- green
- True
- True
- 3
- blue
- False
- yellow
- primary colour
- yellow
- 3
- yellow and blue
- True
- purple
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