Tiger Coloring Page
About This Coloring Page
A tiger is the animal a child asks for right after the lion, and this library had the lion and not the tiger. The difference between them is the whole point of the page: stripes. A tiger is a pattern with an animal inside it, and children who are just starting to notice patterns notice this one without being told.
The stripes are the fine-motor work and they are generous about it. Each one is a narrow shape with two edges, they curve with the body, and there are enough of them that a child can settle into a rhythm — orange, black, orange, black — which is pattern-making by hand. The face is drawn friendly on purpose, so the stripes read as a costume rather than a warning.
The tall grass around the tiger is the part that can be scribbled. Long upward strokes in any green, or yellow, or whatever is nearest, with nothing to stay inside. After the care the stripes ask for, the grass is where the page lets go, and it is why children reach the bottom of this one.
Skills Practiced
How to Use This Coloring Page
- Say the pattern out loud while colouring. Orange, black, orange, black. Naming a pattern as it is made is how it sticks.
- Ask how a tiger is different from a lion. Stripes. One word, and it is the whole answer — which makes it a good first comparison question.
- Scribble the grass last. Long upward strokes, no edges. It is the reward for finishing the stripes.