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