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