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