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