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