Beaver Coloring Page
About This Coloring Page
The beaver is the animal with the flat tail and the two big front teeth, the one that builds with logs, and the page catches it at work: a friendly beaver sitting up beside a winding stream with one log in its paws, its wide criss-crossed tail flat on the grass, three round trees behind it and three clouds in the sky.
The body is one big rounded shape for broad strokes, the tail is a grid of little diamonds to colour one at a time (the easiest pattern work on the shelf), and the log is a short cylinder with rings on the end. The stream is two wavy lines to trace across the bottom of the page, and the trees are three round tops on short trunks.
Ask what the beaver is building with the log and where the water is going. Then count the diamonds on the tail together, and the page becomes a pattern lesson a child does not notice is one.
Skills Practiced
How to Use This Coloring Page
- Fill the beaver first. The round body and the face in one colour, then the two front teeth left white, then the paws.
- Then the tail, one diamond at a time. Two colours taking turns like a chessboard, or every diamond its own.
- Log, stream and trees last. The log and its rings, the two wavy stream lines, the three round trees. Ask where the beaver lives.