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