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