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