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