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