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