Cable Car Colouring Page

This page shows a single cable car cabin, drawn big and rounded so it fills most of the paper. Up top are two large windows side by side, split by a thick middle bar. Below them is a lower panel with a friendly face on it: two round eyes and a curved smiling mouth. The cabin hangs from a short curved arm that clips onto a round pulley wheel, which sits on a diagonal cable line running from corner to corner. Behind the cabin, two triangular mountain peaks poke out, one on each side, the only hint of a setting on an otherwise plain background.

The cabin body and its two windows are wide, open shapes, so a child can colour them in with big sweeps of the crayon and still stay inside the lines. The face is smaller and asks for a steadier hand, which makes a nice change of pace partway through the page. There is plenty to talk about while colouring: what colour the cable car should be, whether the two windows match or not, what colour the mountains are behind it. It also lends itself to picking two or three colours rather than one, since the body, the windows and the mountains are all separate shapes.

With thick, bold outlines and only a handful of parts to fill in, this is an easy sheet. It suits toddlers and younger preschoolers who are still getting used to holding a crayon, and it can be finished in one sitting, which makes it a good pick when you want a page that gets done rather than abandoned halfway.