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