Toy Store Colouring Page

This is the front of a toy shop, drawn straight on like a picture book cover. A rounded roof sits on top with a heart shape cut into the middle of it, and below that runs a striped awning made of eight scalloped panels. In the centre is an arched front door with a round doorknob, and on either side of the door are two big display windows. The left window has a sitting teddy bear inside, with round ears, a stitched nose and two paw-like feet. The right window is stacked with a toy car on top and a striped ball underneath. A plain strip along the very bottom stands in for the pavement.

The page mixes big, easy shapes with a few fiddly ones, which is what makes it worth printing. The roof, awning stripes and door are large enough for a child to sweep a crayon across without worrying about the lines, while the bear's ears and paws, the car's two wheels, and the curved panels on the ball ask for a steadier hand. Because the shop is split into a heart, a roof, eight awning stripes, a door and two windows with three toys between them, there is a natural reason to reach for a new colour every few minutes rather than colouring the whole thing one shade. It also gives you something easy to talk about while colouring: which toy they would pick, what colour they think a teddy bear should be, or what is inside the shop that they cannot see.

There is more going on here than in a single-object page, so it suits a child who has already coloured a few simple pictures and is ready for one with several parts. The shapes stay large and rounded rather than intricate, so it is not a page that will frustrate a younger child, just one that takes a bit longer to finish. Good for ages three to five, and a nice one to print alongside other toy-themed sheets.