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