Mix a primary and a secondary color to make six tertiary colors.
Tertiary Colors helps fourth graders complete the 12-color wheel. Kids mix a primary color with the secondary color next to it to make tertiary colors like red-orange and blue-green in an interactive paint lab.
Art & Creativity course · Grade 4
Tertiary Colors · Learning goals
Complete the 12-color wheel! Mix a primary color with the secondary color next to it to make tertiary colors like red-orange and blue-green.
Why it matters
Tertiary colors complete the 12-color wheel artists and designers use.
Kids learn to mix in-between colors, giving their art richer, more natural tones.
Understanding the full wheel prepares kids for color schemes in later grades.
Inside Tertiary Colors
A short read-aloud lesson first, then hands-on games and a quiz to lock it in.
Step 1 · Lesson
A short read-aloud lesson in 5 steps.
Step 2 · Mix paint colors
Mix all six tertiary colors.
Step 3 · Quiz
5 questions to check what stuck.
Lesson preview
This is the real lesson text your child hears, read aloud by a friendly voice.
The full color wheel has 12 colors: 3 primary, 3 secondary and 6 tertiary.
A tertiary color is a primary color mixed with the secondary color next to it.
We name it with the primary first: red-orange, yellow-green, blue-purple.
Colors next to each other on the wheel are analogous. They look calm together.
Colors across from each other are complementary. They pop with contrast!
For parents
Learning sticks best when kids use it in real life. Here are simple ideas from this course.
Paint a 12-color wheel on a paper plate, mixing each tertiary color yourselves from the primaries.
Practice
Real questions from Tertiary Colors. Try them with your child, then tap to see the answer.
Question 1
6
Question 2
Blue-green
Question 3
Complementary
The full course has 5 questions with instant feedback, stars and rewards. Create a free account to play them all.
Tertiary Colors · Questions from parents
Tertiary Colors is a grade 4 art & creativity course for kids ages 9–10. That is Year 5 art & creativity in the UK and Year 4 in Australia. It also works well for review in the next grade, or as a challenge for a confident younger learner.
Complete the 12-color wheel! Mix a primary color with the secondary color next to it to make tertiary colors like red-orange and blue-green. Along the way they practice: Tertiary Lab.
About 15 minutes in total, split into 3 short levels. Most kids finish it over two or three sessions. Progress is saved, so they can stop any time and pick up where they left off.
Yes. Tertiary Colors is one of the first 2 courses in Grade 4 Art & Creativity. Create a free parent account and your child can start right away.
No. Every lesson has a friendly read-aloud voice, questions are read aloud too, and the pictures help kids follow along. Confident readers can turn the voice off.
Yes. SkillBloom is built for homeschooling families. Kids work through lessons, games and quizzes on their own, and the parent dashboard shows what they finished and which skills need more practice. It works on phones, tablets and laptops.
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