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