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