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