Pelican Coloring Page
About This Coloring Page
The pelican is the bird with the enormous beak that works like a bag, and the page puts it where it lives: a smiling pelican standing on a wooden post in the water, its big pouch beak open, a little fish swimming just below, straight waves across the water, three clouds and the sun peeking over one of them.
The body is one big rounded shape for broad strokes, the pouch is a second big shape to fill in its own colour, and the wing is a row of feathers to colour one at a time. The waves are short straight lines to trace across the page, and the post is a simple cylinder with rings on it.
Ask what the pelican keeps in its beak and whether the fish knows it is there. Then trace the waves together, and the page becomes the straight-line stroke practice a child does not notice.
Skills Practiced
How to Use This Coloring Page
- Fill the pelican first. The round body in one colour, then the big pouch beak in another, then the feet on the post.
- Then the wing and the fish. Every feather on the wing its own stroke, then the little fish and its stripes.
- Post, waves, clouds and sun last. The wooden post, the straight waves, the three clouds, the sun. Ask what the pelican is looking at.