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