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