Ostrich Coloring Page
About This Coloring Page
The ostrich is the biggest bird in the world and the one that cannot fly, and the page gives a child both facts at once: a smiling ostrich on long legs with a long curved neck and a fluffy feathered body, standing on the sand beside one big egg, with rolling hills behind, a few pebbles at its feet and the sun with its rays in the corner.
The body is one big fluffy oval for broad strokes, the neck is a long curve to trace from the head down, and the legs are two straight lines with big toes at the bottom. The egg is one simple oval, the easiest shape on the page, and the hills are long gentle curves across the middle.
Ask how tall an ostrich is (taller than a grown-up) and how big its egg is (bigger than a hand). Then trace the long neck from the top down, and the page becomes the curve-stroke practice a child asks to do again.
Skills Practiced
How to Use This Coloring Page
- Fill the ostrich first. The fluffy body in one colour, then the long neck and the head, then the two long legs.
- Then the egg. One big oval in one colour, or a pattern of spots all over it.
- Hills, pebbles and sun last. The rolling hills behind, the little pebbles at its feet, the sun and its rays. Ask what is inside the egg.