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