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