Skunk Coloring Page
About This Coloring Page
The skunk is the animal with the stripe and the famous smell, and the page catches it on a good day: a smiling skunk sitting up on a patch of grass, its big fluffy tail curled up behind it, a stripe running from its forehead down its back, one daisy beside it, tufts of grass at its feet, rolling hills and clouds behind.
The body is one rounded shape for broad strokes, the tail is a big sweep to fill, and the stripe is drawn in outline so a child chooses its colour (it does not have to be the colour a real skunk's stripe is). The daisy is a ring of petals to colour one at a time, and the hills are long gentle curves.
Ask what a skunk does when it is frightened and why other animals leave it alone. Then colour the stripe and the tail in two colours taking turns, and the page becomes the pattern lesson a child remembers because it had a smell.
Skills Practiced
How to Use This Coloring Page
- Fill the skunk first. The round body and the face in one colour, then the stripe down the back in another.
- Then the big tail. One sweep of colour, or stripes all the way along it to match the back.
- Daisy, grass and hills last. Every petal on the daisy, the tufts of grass, the hills and the clouds. Ask what the skunk is smiling about.