Swan Coloring Page
About This Coloring Page
The swan is the pond bird with the neck shaped like a question mark, and the page gives it the whole pond: a smiling swan gliding on the water with its wings folded up, a lily pad with a flower floating beside it, cattails standing in the reeds on both sides, ripples curving around it, clouds and the sun behind.
The body is one big rounded shape for broad strokes, the neck is a long S-curve to trace from the head down to the water, and the wing is a fan of feathers to colour one at a time. The ripples are short curved lines, the cattails are straight stalks with a sausage on top, and the lily flower is a few pointed petals.
Ask what a baby swan is called (a cygnet) and why swans are so quiet. Then trace the neck with a finger before a crayon, and the page becomes the S-stroke practice a child needs for handwriting later.
Skills Practiced
How to Use This Coloring Page
- Fill the swan first. The body and the long neck in one colour, then the beak and the eye, then every feather on the wing.
- Then the lily pad. The round pad in one colour, then each petal of the flower.
- Cattails, ripples and clouds last. The straight cattail stalks, the curved ripples around the swan, the clouds and the sun. Ask which way the swan is swimming.