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