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