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