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