Strawberry with a Face Colouring Page

This strawberry stands on two short, rounded legs and waves with one hand while the other arm hangs down with its fingers spread. Its face is simple: two solid round eyes and a curved, open smile. On top sits a leafy cap made of several pointed leaves fanning out around a short stalk. Scattered across the wide body are ten small teardrop-shaped seeds, spaced out rather than crowded together.

The body itself is one large, gently curved shape, which gives a young child plenty of room to colour without worrying about staying inside tight lines. The leaves are a good in-between size, and the ten seeds are the fiddly part, small enough that filling each one in cleanly takes a bit more care and a steadier hand. Between the big open body and the little seeds, a child gets a taste of both easy, confident strokes and slower, more careful ones in the same picture. The waving hand and smiling face also give you something to talk about while colouring: is it saying hello, what colour should its cap be, why is it waving.

This is on the easier end of our fruit sheets, mainly because of that large uninterrupted body shape, though the ten seeds add just enough small detail to hold the interest of a child who has moved past the very simplest pages. It suits toddlers and preschoolers who are still building control, and works equally well as a quick five-minute sheet or a slower one if your child wants to give each seed its own colour.