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