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