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