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