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