Starfish Coloring Page
About This Coloring Page
The starfish is the sea creature that is also a shape, and the page leans into that: a smiling starfish with five arms lying on the sand, a line of little dots down each arm, a spiral seashell beside it, curling waves behind, a sun with its rays in the corner and a few bubbles in the air.
The star is one big five-pointed shape for broad strokes, the dots down each arm are tiny circles to colour for whoever wants the careful part, and the shell is a spiral to follow with a finger. The waves are curls to trace and the sun's rays are short straight strokes.
Ask how many arms a starfish has and count them together, then find the star shape on the page and somewhere in the room. The page becomes the shape lesson a child remembers because it had a face.
Skills Practiced
How to Use This Coloring Page
- Fill the starfish first. The whole star in one colour, then every dot down each arm in another.
- Then the shell. Follow the spiral from the outside in with a finger, then a crayon.
- Waves, sun and bubbles last. The curling waves, the sun and its rays, then the bubbles. Count the arms one more time.