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