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