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