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