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