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