Jellyfish Coloring Page
About This Coloring Page
The jellyfish is the simplest creature in the sea to draw and one of the hardest to find on a coloring shelf, and the page makes it the whole picture: a smiling round jellyfish floating in open water, a wavy skirt under its bell, a bundle of curly tentacles trailing down, two bubbles beside it, two tufts of seaweed and two small rocks on the sea floor.
The bell is one big dome for broad strokes, the skirt is a wavy band to trace, and the tentacles are long wiggly lines, which is exactly the pre-writing stroke a three-year-old is practising anyway. The seaweed is more of the same wiggle, and the bubbles are two circles.
Ask how a jellyfish moves without any legs. Then trace every tentacle with a finger before a crayon, and the page becomes a handwriting warm-up disguised as the sea.
Skills Practiced
How to Use This Coloring Page
- Fill the bell first. The big dome in one colour, then the wavy skirt underneath in another.
- Then every tentacle. Follow each wiggly line from the top to its curl. A finger first, then a crayon.
- Seaweed, rocks and bubbles last. The two seaweed tufts, the two rocks, the two bubbles. Ask which way the jellyfish is floating.