Slice of Cake Colouring Page

This is one triangular wedge of cake, cut so you can see three separate layers stacked on top of each other. The top layer has a friendly face drawn right on it, two round eyes and a curved smile, and balanced above that is a single large strawberry with its leafy top and a scatter of seed dots across its body. The whole slice sits on a round plate, drawn with a double outline for the rim underneath the cake.

The layers are what make this page worth printing. Each band of cake is a wide, open shape with nothing fiddly inside it, so a child can colour the bottom layer chocolate brown and the middle one pink without the crayon straying into the next section, then move up to the frosting layer and give the face its own shade. The strawberry is the one part that asks for more care, since the seed dots are small and sit close together, good practice for little hands ready for something a bit trickier than a plain shape. It is also easy to talk over while colouring: ask what flavour each layer should be, or what colour frosting they would actually pick at a party.

Because most of the page is broad, flat space, it suits younger children or anyone after a relaxed page to finish in one sitting, while the strawberry seeds give slightly older toddlers something to concentrate on. There is nothing faint or overly detailed here, so it prints and colours cleanly with almost any crayon, felt tip or pencil.