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