HTML Preview Color Wheel Chart For Kids page number 1.
Color Wheel for Kids!
Do you like to mix colors? Did you know mixed colors have names and groups? They do!
The first group is called
PRIMARY COLORS
red
yellow
blue
The second group is called
SECONDARY COLORS
these are made by mixing the
primary colors that “sandwich” them
on the color wheel (skip over the tertiary colors!)
orange
green
violet
The third group is called
TERTIARY COLORS
these are made by mixing the primary color
and secondary color that “sandwich” them
on the color wheel
red-orange
yellow-orange
yellow-green
blue-green
blue-violet
red-violet
Answer the following questions
using the color wheel.
1. What two primary colors are mixed to make
the secondary color orange?
(Hint: Remember to skip over the tertiary colors!)
2. What two colors are mixed to make yellow-green?
(Hint: One is primary and the other is secondary)
3. How many tertiary colors are there in
the color wheel?
4. Opposite colors are straight across from each
other like red and green. What color is opposite
blue on the color wheel?
Color your own color wheel!
red
yellow-orange
yellow
blue
orange
green
violet
red-orange
yellow-green
blue-green
blue-violet
red-violet
red
yellow-orange
yellow
blue
orange
green
violet
red-orange
yellow-green
blue-green
blue-violet
red-violet