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