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