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