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12-Part Colour Wheel and Colour Theory worksheets

  • Updated

    Updated:  05 Mar 2020

A set of warm/cool colour wheel worksheets featuring the 12 primary, secondary and tertiary colours.

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  5 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  F - 7

Curriculum

  • Being imaginative

    Children use what they have learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes. They represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role-play and stories.

  • Exploring and using media and materials

    Children sing songs, make music and dance, and experiment with ways of changing them. They safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

  • Art and design

    Pupils should be taught: to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products; to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination; to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in...

  • Art and design

    Pupils should be taught to develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design. Pupils should be taught: to create sket...

  • Art and design

    Pupils should be taught to develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design. Pupils should be taught: to create sket...

teaching resource

12-Part Colour Wheel and Colour Theory worksheets

  • Updated

    Updated:  05 Mar 2020

A set of warm/cool colour wheel worksheets featuring the 12 primary, secondary and tertiary colours.

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  5 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  F - 7

A set of warm/cool colour wheel worksheets featuring the 12 primary, secondary and tertiary colours.

Use this set of worksheets in your classroom to help your students learn about colour temperature and colour theory by colouring in the 12 parts.

The colour theory posters cover:

Primary Colours: red, yellow and blue

Primary colours are the colours that can’t be mixed or formed by any combination of other colours. All other colours are made from these 3 hues.

Secondary Colours: green, orange and purple

These are the colours created by mixing two primary colours together.

Tertiary Colours: Yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green and yellow-green

These are the colours created by mixing a primary and a secondary colour.

Warm Colours are made with orange, red, yellow and combinations of these. Warm colours remind us of sunlight and heat.

Cool Colours such as blue, green and blue-purple remind us of water and sky.

Analogous Colours are any three colours which are side by side on a 12-part colour wheel. This example shows yellow, yellow-orange and orange.

Complementary Colours are any two colours which are directly opposite each other, such as yellow and purple. These opposing colours create maximum contrast.

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