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