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