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