🦋 Insects & Little Bugs
Happy Caterpillar on a Leaf Colouring Page
Ages 2–5
🦋 Insects & Little Bugs
Smiling Earthworm In An Apple Colouring Page
A big round apple with a leaf, a curved stem, and a smiling striped worm poking its head out of a hole near the top.
- Suitable for
- Ages 2–4
- Pages
- 1 page
- Level
- Easy
- Printing
- Black & white
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What your child practises
- Colours a large enclosed area without needing to lift the crayon often
- Stays inside a smaller shape by colouring the worm's rounded head separately from its body
- Follows a curved line by colouring the leaf and its single vein
- Counts the worm's four body segments and picks colours to tell them apart
- Talks about a simple cause and effect, like why there is a hole in the apple
About this worksheet
This page is one large apple, drawn with the classic dip at the bottom and a single pointed leaf attached to a curved stem. Poking out of a round hole near the top of the apple is an earthworm with a friendly round face, two dot eyes, a curved smile, and a body made of four simple curved segments before it disappears back into the fruit. Every shape is bold and closed off with a thick outline, so there is nothing fiddly to hunt down.
Almost the whole page is the apple's body, one wide open space a child can fill in with a single sweep of red, green or whatever colour they fancy that day, without worrying about staying inside anything small. The leaf and worm segments give a bit of variety alongside that, small enough to try a second or third colour if they want to, but not so small that it becomes a wrestling match with the crayon. It is an easy one to talk through too: where is the worm going, has it eaten a hole in the apple, how many stripes does its body have.
This is a gentle sheet, closer to a warm-up than a challenge, and it suits younger colourers who are still working on keeping crayon strokes inside a line rather than tracing detail. Older preschoolers who like to add extra colours to the worm's stripes or the leaf vein will find just enough here to keep their interest without needing much patience.
How to use this sheet
Start with the big apple shape so your child gets an early win, then move to the smaller worm and leaf. If the worm's segments feel fiddly, let them use just one colour for the whole worm instead of switching for each stripe.
