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