Little Red Riding Hood Colouring Page

This page shows Little Red Riding Hood standing still and waving, one hand raised with fingers spread out, the other holding a round basket by its handle. The basket has three apples inside, each with a little leaf on top. Her cape is big and pointed at the hood, tied at the neck with a bow, and falls in one wide sweep past her knees. Underneath she wears a plain dress and a pair of buckled shoes, and her hair falls in a simple fringe under the hood.

The cape is the main event here, and it has been left deliberately empty of any pattern or shading, so it becomes one large curved space for a child to practise filling with a single colour, ideally red, without worrying about staying inside fiddly lines. The basket and apples are smaller and rounder, good for a child who wants a bit more of a challenge once the cape is done, and the shoes and bow give two tiny extra spots to finish off. It is a page built around one strong colour choice rather than a rainbow of them, which makes it a natural pick for a parent trying to get a child to recognise and reach for red.

The shapes are large, the lines are thick, and nothing overlaps or sits too close together, so this suits a younger child still learning to keep crayon inside an outline as much as an older preschooler who wants to move quickly. It does not teach a story or ask for much counting beyond the three apples, but as a straightforward, satisfying colour-in it does the job well.