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