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