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