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