Smiling Rain Cloud Coloring Page

This page has one large, bumpy cloud filling the top half of the sheet, with two oval eyes and a curved smiling mouth. Underneath it hang five raindrops shaped like fat teardrops, three in a row just below the cloud and two more staggered beneath them. Every shape has a thick, bold outline and nothing else is on the page, so there is no background or scenery to fill in.

The cloud itself is one wide, lumpy area, good for a child who is still learning to keep crayon strokes inside a line, while the five raindrops are smaller and separate, giving a bit more of a challenge for little fingers to stay inside each teardrop without drifting into the next one. It is an easy page to talk over while coloring: count the raindrops together, ask what color rain "should" be, or let the cloud be any color at all since it has a face and a bit of personality. There is no wrong answer here, which takes the pressure off.

Because the shapes are so few and so clearly separated, this is one of the more forgiving sheets in the weather set. It suits a younger or newer colorer who wants a quick, satisfying page to finish in one sitting, though the small raindrops give slightly older preschoolers something to focus their control on too.