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