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