Warm and Cool Colours Worksheet
Artist's tip (Fire or ice?): Warm: red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow. Cool: blue, blue-green, green, blue-purple, purple. Hot or fiery subjects (campfire, sunset, lava) → warm colours; cold, wet or shady subjects (sea, glacier, rainy night) → cool colours.
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- 1.🌡️ Is green a warm colour or a cool colour? (a) warm colour (b) cool colour
- 2.True or false: orange is a warm colour. (a) False (b) True
- 3.Which of these is a warm colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow (c) green (d) blue
- 4.🌡️ Is yellow-orange a warm colour or a cool colour? (a) warm colour (b) cool colour
- 5.Which of these is usually painted in warm colours? (a) hot lava (b) an icy glacier (c) a rainy night (d) a deep blue sea
- 6.Which of these is a cool colour? (a) red-orange (b) yellow-orange (c) purple (d) yellow
- 7.🖌️ Would you paint hot lava mostly in warm colours or cool colours? (a) warm colours (b) cool colours
- 8.Which of these is usually painted in cool colours? (a) a flaming torch (b) a snowy mountain (c) hot lava (d) a campfire
- 9.🖌️ Would you paint autumn leaves mostly in warm colours or cool colours? (a) warm colours (b) cool colours
- 10.🌡️ Is blue-green a warm colour or a cool colour? (a) cool colour (b) warm colour
- 11.True or false: blue is a warm colour. (a) False (b) True
- 12.🌡️ Which half of the colour wheel is the warm half? (a) red to yellow (b) blue to green (c) green to purple
- 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) green
- 14.🖌️ Would you paint a sunset sky mostly in warm colours or cool colours? (a) cool colours (b) warm colours
- 15.Which of these is a warm colour? (a) blue (b) blue-green (c) red (d) blue-purple
- 16.Which of these is usually painted in cool colours? (a) a campfire (b) a flaming torch (c) a shady forest (d) a sunset sky
- 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
- 18.Which of these is a warm colour? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) blue-green (d) purple
- 19.Which of these is usually painted in cool colours? (a) a flaming torch (b) a sunset sky (c) hot lava (d) a deep blue sea
- 20.True or false: autumn leaves is usually painted in cool colours. (a) False (b) True
- 21.🌡️ Is blue a warm colour or a cool colour? (a) cool colour (b) warm colour
- 22.🌡️ Is purple a warm colour or a cool colour? (a) cool colour (b) warm colour
- 23.True or false: a snowy mountain is usually painted in warm colours. (a) True (b) False
- 24.True or false: purple is a warm colour. (a) False (b) True
- 25.True or false: the hot desert sun is usually painted in cool colours. (a) True (b) False
- 26.🌡️ Is blue-purple a warm colour or a cool colour? (a) warm colour (b) cool colour
- 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a campfire (b) a flaming torch (c) hot lava (d) an icy glacier
- 28.True or false: yellow is a cool colour. (a) False (b) True
- 29.🖌️ Would you paint a calm lake mostly in warm colours or cool colours? (a) warm colours (b) cool colours
- 30.🌡️ In a picture, which colours seem to come forward, closer to you? (a) warm colours (b) cool colours
- 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue-purple (b) orange (c) purple (d) blue-green
- 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) blue-purple (c) purple (d) blue-green
- 33.Which of these is a warm colour? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-purple (d) green
- 34.True or false: a shady forest is usually painted in cool colours. (a) True (b) False
- 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) an icy glacier (b) autumn leaves (c) a deep blue sea (d) a snowy mountain
- 36.🌡️ Is red a warm colour or a cool colour? (a) cool colour (b) warm colour
- 37.True or false: purple is a cool colour. (a) True (b) False
- 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) green (d) yellow-orange
- 39.🖌️ Would you paint a snowy mountain mostly in warm colours or cool colours? (a) warm colours (b) cool colours
- 40.Which of these is a cool colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
Answer key
- cool colour
- True
- yellow
- warm colour
- hot lava
- purple
- warm colours
- a snowy mountain
- warm colours
- cool colour
- False
- red to yellow
- red-orange
- warm colours
- red
- a shady forest
- blue
- red-orange
- a deep blue sea
- False
- cool colour
- cool colour
- False
- False
- False
- cool colour
- an icy glacier
- False
- cool colours
- warm colours
- orange
- red
- yellow-orange
- True
- autumn leaves
- warm colour
- True
- green
- cool colours
- blue
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