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