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