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