Coloring
Hibernating Bear Coloring Page
About This Coloring Page
The bear sleeps all winter, which is the one winter fact every three-year-old knows, and the page draws it big and quiet: a bear curled up asleep under a rounded cave arch, eyes shut, paws tucked in, snowflakes falling and a few fir trees and snowy hills outside.
The bear is one big rounded shape for broad strokes, the cave arch is a single wide curve to trace with a finger from one side to the other, and the snowflakes are the small careful part. The trees and hills outside are the open space for whoever wants to keep going.
Ask how long the bear will sleep and what it will eat first when it wakes up. Then whisper so you do not wake it, and the page becomes the quietest colouring page on the shelf.
Skills Practiced
Fine Motor Skills
Nature Vocabulary
Calm Focus
Seasonal Vocabulary
How to Use This Coloring Page
- Trace the arch first. One finger from one side of the cave over the top to the other. Then do it again with a crayon.
- Fill the bear in one go. The big curled shape, one colour. Nose and ears the same so it reads as one sleeping bear.
- Snowflakes and trees last. Small and careful for the flakes, three triangles for the trees. Whisper while you do it.