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