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