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Easter Coloring Pages

Easter is the gentlest holiday in a toddler's year. Nothing about it needs explaining or softening — it is baby animals, eggs and the first warm week of the year — which makes it the one seasonal set you can hand to a two year old without reading it first.

Most of these are animals rather than symbols, and that is deliberate. A chick, a duckling and a baby bunny are three separate drawings to a small child, and all three are more interesting to color than a decorated egg. The eggs are here too, and they are the pages worth printing twice: an egg is a closed shape divided into bands, which is an invitation to use six colors on one object without any of them being wrong.

Three picture mazes open the page, a chick and a duckling looking for their mothers and a rabbit after a carrot, for a child who would rather solve something than color it.

They stay up all year, which matters more for Easter than for the fixed holidays. The date moves by a month depending on the year, so a page published to catch one Easter is already mistimed for the next.

23 pages

Which of these suits my child?

Two year olds
The single-animal pages are the ones to print — one bunny, one chick, filling most of the sheet. Easter is also the first holiday where a child may want to color something and then give it to somebody, and a scribbled-over duckling handed to a grandparent is the whole point rather than a rough draft.
Three year olds
The eggs come into their own here. A banded egg is the easiest page on the site to succeed at — the bands do the deciding, and the child only has to pick colors — so it is a good one to reach for on a day when nothing else is going right.
Four and five year olds
Try the fuller scenes: a hen with chicks, a basket with three patterned eggs in it, a rabbit painting an Easter egg. At this age a child will often color the same sheet twice to try different color schemes, which is worth encouraging and worth printing two copies for.

Every sheet lists the ages it suits, and the 2, 3, 4 and 5 year old pages carry the full range if you would rather start there.

Getting the most out of them

Color them, then hide them
A colored egg cut out and hidden around the house is an egg hunt that costs nothing and involves no chocolate before breakfast. Small children are entirely satisfied by finding paper, especially paper they made.
Good for a long Sunday
Easter lands on a day when stores are closed and relatives are visiting. Six of these and a tub of crayons on a coffee table will absorb a mixed-age group of children for longer than anything else you can produce at short notice.
Print on the thin paper
These are the sheets most likely to be cut out and stuck to a window, and ordinary copier paper cuts and tapes better than cardstock. Save the heavy stock for pages that are going to survive being mailed to somebody.

The printing guide covers the scale setting that decides whether a sheet comes out the size it was drawn at, and most of these can also be colored on screen if the printer is out of ink.

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