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