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Waving Basketball Character Colouring Page
A round, smiling basketball waves hello with four fingers up while standing on two sneakers, its curved seams splitting the ball into four big panels.
- Suitable for
- Ages 2–5
- Pages
- 1 page
- Level
- Easy
- Printing
- Black & white
Free, no sign-up. A4 · Print at 100% scale
What your child practises
- Colours the four large seam panels separately without crayon jumping the line
- Handles the smaller enclosed shapes on the trainers, like the sole and laces
- Keeps the face details, eyes and smile, clean and separate from the body colour
- Practises steady hand control filling one big curved shape at a time
- Talks through the waving pose and matches or contrasts colours across the four panels
About this worksheet
This basketball has a face: two closed, smiling eyes and a wide curved grin sit in the middle of the ball. One arm is raised in a wave, hand open with four fingers showing, and the other arm bends down into a fist resting near its hip. Two curved seam lines cross the ball and split it into four rounded panels, and down below, two legs end in a pair of chunky lace-up trainers, one foot forward as if mid-step.
The seam lines do the hard work here, turning one big circle into four separate spaces so a child is not stuck colouring one enormous area in a single sitting. Each panel can be its own colour, which is a nice chance to talk about matching pairs, or a child can go rogue and make all four different. The face stays untouched by the seams, so the smile and eyes form their own small, careful shapes, and the trainers add a second texture: soles, laces and toe caps for a hand that wants a bit more detail once the ball itself is done.
Nothing on the page is fiddly. The seams are wide and the trainers are the only parts with smaller enclosed bits, so this suits a child just starting to stay inside lines as much as one who is already confident with a crayon. There is no background to fill in, so the whole thing can be finished in one sitting without anyone losing patience.
How to use this sheet
Start with the four big seam panels on the ball before moving to the smaller trainer details, so early crayon strokes land on the easy shapes. If the seam lines are hard to spot, trace them first with a finger.
