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