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