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