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