Bat Coloring Page
About This Coloring Page
This page is upside down on purpose, and that is the whole reason it is worth printing. Nearly every animal a child colours is drawn the right way up. A bat hanging from a branch is the first one that is not, and children reliably turn the paper around to look at its face before they start.
Turning the paper is the activity. It is a small piece of spatial reasoning that no worksheet can ask for directly — the child works out on their own that the picture makes more sense from another angle, then has to decide whether to colour it from that angle or the original one.
It is also the Halloween page that is not only a Halloween page. Bats are asked for in October and then again whenever a child meets one in a book, so this sheet keeps working after the pumpkins come down.
Skills Practiced
How to Use This Coloring Page
- Turn the paper around first. Look at the bat's face the right way up, then decide which way to hold the page while colouring it.
- Do the wings in two halves. They are the two largest areas on the sheet and the easiest place to try two shades of the same colour.
- Count the stars, then the moon. Three stars and one moon is a count small enough to finish and check.