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