Box of Chocolates Colouring Page

This page is a big heart-shaped box with a face drawn right onto the lid, two round eyes and a wide open smile, sitting above the open box itself. Inside, five chocolates are laid out in two rows, and no two look alike: top left has a swirled spiral on its round top, top right is a square piece stamped with a heart, the middle row has a small square with a wavy squiggle, a chocolate shaped like a heart with a smaller heart traced inside it, and a round one marked with a star.

The big heart outline and the smiling face give a child two large, forgiving areas to colour first, which is a nice way to start without any pressure. The five chocolates are where the page gets more interesting, since each one is a small enclosed shape with its own pattern inside, so little hands get practice staying inside a spiral, a star point or a wavy line rather than just a plain circle. It also gives you something to talk about while colouring: which chocolate looks the tastiest, whether the spiral one is caramel, what colour a star-topped chocolate should be.

This one sits a notch above the simplest sheets because of those inner patterns, though nothing here is fussy or tiny. It suits preschoolers who have coloured a few pages already and are ready to slow down and follow a line inside a shape, while the big heart and face still make it approachable for a first attempt.