Instructions
- Use crayons, colored pencils, or washable markers.
- Color each picture carefully. Try to stay inside the lines.
- Use the suggested colors or choose your own colors.
- Add details, patterns, or extra drawings when you finish.
- Ask an adult to help cut out your finished pictures if you would like to display them.
Coloring Page 1: Shape House
Coloring goal: Practice recognizing and coloring basic shapes.
Color the shapes below:
- Circle sun: color it yellow.
- Triangle roof: color it red.
- Square window: color it blue.
- Rectangle door: color it brown or green.
- Clouds: color them light blue or gray.
Draw and color: Draw a house using a triangle, square, circle, and rectangle.
Coloring Page 2: Happy Garden
Coloring goal: Practice using different colors in a familiar real-world scene.
Imagine a garden with:
- A bright sun
- Three flowers
- Green grass
- A buzzing bee
- A butterfly
- A small watering can
Color the garden. Then add one thing that might grow there.
My extra garden drawing:
Coloring Page 3: Friendly Animal
Coloring goal: Use creativity to design an animal.
Draw and color a friendly animal. Choose one:
- Cat
- Dog
- Rabbit
- Turtle
- Elephant
Add at least three details, such as ears, eyes, spots, stripes, whiskers, or a tail.
My animal is a: __
My animal's favorite color is: __
Animal drawing space:
Coloring Page 4: Neighborhood Helpers
Coloring goal: Connect art with everyday community life.
Color or draw these neighborhood objects:
- A fire truck
- A school bus
- A mailbox
- A tree
- A traffic light
- A community helper
Choose colors that help people know what each object is. For example, a stop sign is often red.
Draw one helpful person:
Color-and-Match Challenge
Draw a line to match each object with a color that is often used for it. Colors may have more than one correct answer.
| Object | Example color | My color |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Yellow | __ |
| Grass | Green | __ |
| Ocean | Blue | __ |
| Apple | Red | __ |
| Pumpkin | Orange | __ |
| Snow | White | __ |
Optional Challenge
- Make a picture using only three colors.
- Make a picture using warm colors: red, orange, and yellow.
- Make a picture using cool colors: blue, green, and purple.
- Tell someone a short story about one of your pictures.
Answer Key
- Shape House: Suggested colors are yellow for the sun, red for the roof, blue for the window, and brown or green for the door. Other reasonable color choices are also correct.
- Happy Garden: Answers are open-ended. The picture should include a garden scene and one extra item that can grow there, such as a flower, vegetable, fruit, or tree.
- Friendly Animal: Answers are open-ended. The drawing should show an animal with at least three details.
- Neighborhood Helpers: Answers are open-ended. Drawings should show recognizable community objects or a helpful person.
- Color-and-Match Challenge: Suggested answers are yellow, green, blue, red, orange, and white. Other sensible choices may be accepted.
- Optional Challenge: Any picture that follows the selected color rule is correct.