Primary Colours

Primary colours

Red, yellow and blue are primary colours. We cannot make them by mixing other colours.

Mixing colours

• Red + yellow = orange
• Yellow + blue = green
• Blue + red = purple

Colours around us

A red tomato, a yellow banana, and the blue sky. The Kenyan flag has black, red, green and white.

Try it

• Paint with red, yellow and blue.
• Mix two colours and name the new one.
• Colour a picture of a fruit.