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