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