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