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