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