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