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.🖌️ Would you paint a flaming torch mostly in warm colours or cool colours? (a) cool colours (b) warm colours
- 2.🖌️ Would you paint a sunset sky mostly in warm colours or cool colours? (a) cool colours (b) warm colours
- 3.Which of these is usually painted in warm colours? (a) a shady forest (b) an icy glacier (c) a rainy night (d) hot lava
- 4.Which of these is a cool colour? (a) orange (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) green
- 5.🖌️ Would you paint a calm lake mostly in warm colours or cool colours? (a) cool colours (b) warm colours
- 6.🖌️ Would you paint autumn leaves mostly in warm colours or cool colours? (a) cool colours (b) warm colours
- 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a sunset sky (b) a campfire (c) a rainy night (d) a flaming torch
- 8.True or false: red is a cool colour. (a) True (b) False
- 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) orange (c) blue-purple (d) blue
- 10.🖌️ Would you paint a shady forest mostly in warm colours or cool colours? (a) cool colours (b) warm colours
- 11.True or false: a snowy mountain is usually painted in warm colours. (a) False (b) True
- 12.True or false: yellow-orange is a warm colour. (a) True (b) False
- 13.🌡️ Cool colours make us think of… (a) hot sand (b) flames (c) water, ice and sky (d) fire and sunshine
- 14.True or false: a flaming torch is usually painted in cool colours. (a) True (b) False
- 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a shady forest (b) a deep blue sea (c) the hot desert sun (d) an icy glacier
- 16.Which of these is a warm colour? (a) blue (b) green (c) orange (d) blue-purple
- 17.Which of these is usually painted in warm colours? (a) a calm lake (b) an icy glacier (c) autumn leaves (d) a rainy night
- 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) blue-purple (d) red-orange
- 19.True or false: orange is a cool colour. (a) True (b) False
- 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue-green (d) blue
- 21.True or false: autumn leaves is usually painted in cool colours. (a) False (b) True
- 22.🌡️ Warm colours make us think of… (a) snow and night (b) fire and sunshine (c) shade and rain (d) ice and water
- 23.🖌️ Would you paint hot lava mostly in warm colours or cool colours? (a) cool colours (b) warm colours
- 24.Which of these is usually painted in warm colours? (a) a flaming torch (b) a deep blue sea (c) a snowy mountain (d) a calm lake
- 25.🌡️ Is yellow-orange a warm colour or a cool colour? (a) warm colour (b) cool colour
- 26.True or false: blue-purple is a cool colour. (a) False (b) True
- 27.🌡️ Is orange a warm colour or a cool colour? (a) cool colour (b) warm colour
- 28.Which of these is a cool colour? (a) red (b) blue-green (c) red-orange (d) yellow
- 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flaming torch (b) a shady forest (c) an icy glacier (d) a deep blue sea
- 30.True or false: a deep blue sea is usually painted in warm colours. (a) True (b) False
- 31.Which of these is usually painted in cool colours? (a) a campfire (b) autumn leaves (c) a calm lake (d) hot lava
- 32.True or false: blue is a warm colour. (a) False (b) True
- 33.🌡️ Is red a warm colour or a cool colour? (a) cool colour (b) warm colour
- 34.True or false: hot lava is usually painted in cool colours. (a) True (b) False
- 35.True or false: an icy glacier is usually painted in warm colours. (a) True (b) False
- 36.Which of these is a warm colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) blue-green (d) green
- 37.True or false: red-orange is a cool colour. (a) True (b) False
- 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a deep blue sea (b) the hot desert sun (c) autumn leaves (d) a campfire
- 39.Which of these is a cool colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) red (c) red-orange (d) blue-purple
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) red (d) yellow-orange
Answer key
- warm colours
- warm colours
- hot lava
- green
- cool colours
- warm colours
- a rainy night
- False
- orange
- cool colours
- False
- True
- water, ice and sky
- False
- the hot desert sun
- orange
- autumn leaves
- blue-purple
- False
- yellow-orange
- False
- fire and sunshine
- warm colours
- a flaming torch
- warm colour
- True
- warm colour
- blue-green
- a flaming torch
- False
- a calm lake
- False
- warm colour
- False
- False
- red
- False
- a deep blue sea
- blue-purple
- blue
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