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.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 2.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes orange. (a) False (b) True
- 3.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
- 4.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
- 5.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
- 6.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 7.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
- 8.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) red and blue (c) yellow and blue (d) yellow and red
- 9.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
- 10.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
- 11.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 12.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
- 13.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 14.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two secondary colours (b) three neutral colours (c) black and white (d) two primary colours
- 15.True or false: the paint sum red + ? = purple needs blue. (a) False (b) True
- 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) yellow (d) green
- 17.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = green (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
- 18.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) green
- 19.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 20.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) blue and yellow (b) yellow and blue (c) blue and red (d) red and yellow
- 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
- 22.Which primary colour is in BOTH green and purple? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 23.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
- 24.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 25.True or false: red is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 26.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 27.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
- 28.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 29.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and yellow (b) yellow and red (c) blue and red (d) yellow and blue
- 30.True or false: the paint sum yellow + ? = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
- 31.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
- 32.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue (d) purple
- 33.🎨 Mix yellow and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
- 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) orange (d) red
- 35.True or false: the paint sum ? + yellow = orange needs blue. (a) True (b) False
- 36.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
- 37.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red (b) purple (c) green (d) orange
- 38.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple
- 39.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
- 40.Which two paint colours mixed together make green? (a) blue and yellow (b) blue and red (c) yellow and red (d) red and yellow
Answer key
- primary colour
- True
- False
- red
- red
- secondary colour
- purple
- yellow and red
- True
- 3
- primary colour
- blue
- red
- two primary colours
- True
- green
- yellow
- green
- False
- red and yellow
- red
- blue
- True
- primary colour
- False
- secondary colour
- 3
- secondary colour
- blue and red
- True
- yellow
- purple
- green
- orange
- False
- False
- red
- purple
- red
- blue and yellow
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