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