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