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