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