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