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