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