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