Cheering Soccer Ball Coloring Page

This page turns a soccer ball into a little character. The ball is round and split into six large panels by thick curved lines, with a big happy face sitting in the middle hexagon: two oval eyes and a wide open smile. Both arms shoot straight up over its head in a cheer, each ending in a mitten-shaped hand with finger lines, and two short legs stick out underneath in rounded, shoe-like feet. There is nothing else on the page, no background, no goalposts, just the ball standing and celebrating.

Thick curved lines split the ball into large, roomy spaces. The six panels around the ball are big and rounded, so a child can color each one a different color, or pick just two and alternate them, without the crayon straying far from the lines. The face is the fiddly part: the two eyes and the smile are small closed shapes that ask for a steadier hand, which is a nice contrast to the wide open panels around them. It is an easy page to talk about while coloring, asking whether the ball is happy, what color it should be, why its arms are up.

This is on the easier end of the sheets in this set. The outlines are thick, the shapes are few, and there is no fine detail beyond the face. Older preschoolers who like more to fill in might find it goes by fast.