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