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