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