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