🚜 Construction & Big Machines
Tow Truck Colouring Page
Ages 2–5
🚜 Construction & Big Machines
Crane Truck Colouring Page
A smiling crane truck swings a cube-shaped crate marked with four circles from a hook and pulley high above its rounded wheels.
- Suitable for
- Ages 3–5
- Pages
- 1 page
- Level
- Easy
- Printing
- Black & white
Free, no sign-up. A4 · Print at 100% scale
What your child practises
- Colours the large cab, wheels and bumper areas without needing to change colour often
- Fills the four small circles on the crate without crossing their edges
- Counts the four wheels and the four circles on the hanging crate
- Names crane parts by pointing to them: pulley, hook, arm and crate
- Keeps colour inside the curved, irregular shape of the cab window
About this worksheet
This crane truck has a big friendly face built right into its front window: two round eyes, curved eyebrows, a small nose and a closed-mouth smile. A second, plain window sits beside it on the cab. Behind the cab, a tall arm leans up to a round pulley wheel, and a cable drops down through a knotted hook that holds a cube-shaped crate. The crate's front face carries four circles arranged in a small square, like rivets or a die. Underneath it all, the truck rests on four rounded wheels, each with its own hubcap circle, and a thick bumper band runs across the middle of the body.
Most of this page is made of big, forgiving shapes: the cab body, the wheels, the bumper and the crate all give a child plenty of room to colour without worrying about staying inside tiny lines. The four circles on the crate and the small loops of the hook are the exception, and they're a nice place to slow down and practise more careful strokes once the big areas are done. It's an easy picture to talk about while colouring, too. What's inside the crate? Why does the truck need such a long arm to lift it?
Because the outlines are thick and the mechanical detail is kept to a minimum, this is one of the gentler sheets in the trucks collection. It suits a child who is still building confidence with a crayon, while the crate's four circles and the hook give slightly older toddlers something a bit fiddlier to aim for.
How to use this sheet
Start with the big wheels and cab body, since those are the easiest spaces. Save the four small circles on the crate and the hook's loops for last, as they need the steadiest hand. Ask your child what they think is inside the crate.
