Coloring
Caterpillar Coloring Page
About This Coloring Page
The caterpillar is the one from the storybook that eats its way through the week, and the page catches it mid-munch: a smiling caterpillar with two curly antennae crawling along one big leaf, its body a row of round segments, a smiling sun in the corner and a few round dots floating in the air around it.
The body is a line of circles, so a toddler can colour one segment at a time, two colours taking turns. The leaf is one big shape with a vein down the middle to trace, the sun is a circle with short rays, and the floating dots are small circles to fill or to count.
Ask how many segments the caterpillar has and what it will turn into. Then wriggle across the floor together, and the page becomes the butterfly story told backwards.
Skills Practiced
Fine Motor Skills
Animal Vocabulary
Counting 1-5
Pattern Recognition
How to Use This Coloring Page
- Segments first, one at a time. Two colours taking turns down the body, like beads on a string. Count them as you go.
- Then the leaf. One colour for the leaf, then follow the vein down the middle with a finger and a crayon.
- Sun and dots last. The smiling sun and its rays, then every floating dot. Ask what the caterpillar had for lunch.