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