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