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