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