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