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