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