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