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