Frog Playing a Banjo Colouring Page

This frog sits square to the page with its legs flopped out to the sides, four webbed feet spread flat and its toes fanned out. Its head is mostly two enormous round eyes and a wide open-mouthed grin, with two small dot nostrils above. Across its middle sits a banjo drawn as one big circle with a thinner circle just inside its rim, plus a small rectangle near the bottom edge. One frog hand rests flat on the banjo's face, the other reaches up the long neck to the headstock, where three round tuning knobs stick out to the side.

Almost everything here is a large, single shape: the body, the head, each leg, the banjo's drum. A child can fill the frog in green or pick any colour they like and cover most of the page in a few confident strokes without worrying about staying inside something fiddly. The few small bits, the tuning knobs, the nostrils, the ring inside the banjo, give slightly older hands something to slow down for, but nothing here needs a sharp pencil or a steady wrist. It is an easy page to talk through too: ask what tune the frog might be playing, or why it looks so pleased with itself.

Because the shapes are so open and there is only one character on the page, this sits toward the easy end of the animals-having-fun set. It works well as an early colouring session for a two or three year old, and it is relaxed enough for a four or five year old to finish quickly and move on.