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