🦕 Dinosaurs & Prehistoric
Hatching Dinosaur Egg Colouring Page
Ages 2–5
🦕 Dinosaurs & Prehistoric
Triceratops Colouring Page
A round, smiling triceratops mid-step with one front foot lifted, a scalloped frill and a curled tail to colour.
- Suitable for
- Ages 2–5
- Pages
- 1 page
- Level
- Easy
- Printing
- Black & white
Free, no sign-up. A4 · Print at 100% scale
What your child practises
- Colours large rounded areas, like the body and tail, without much regard for going outside thick outlines
- Fills six separate frill sections, choosing whether to repeat or vary the colour in each one
- Colours smaller enclosed shapes, such as the eye, horns and mouth, with more care than the body
- Talks about the lifted front foot and comes up with a reason for why it is raised
- Counts and colours all three horns on the face
About this worksheet
This triceratops is caught mid-walk, front left foot raised off the ground as if it just took a step towards you. Its body is one big rounded shape, and behind its head sits a scalloped frill divided into six sections by simple lines, edged with small bumps. Three horns sit on the face, two longer ones above the eyes and a shorter one on the nose, and the face itself is friendly, with one large round eye, a curved eyebrow line, a dotted nostril and an open, smiling mouth. A thick tail curls up behind the back legs, and all four feet show clawed toes planted, or on that lifted foot, reaching, towards the ground.
There is a lot of open space here for a young hand to fill in: the belly, the round body, the tail and each frill section are all big, closed shapes that do not demand a steady wrist. The face is where the picture gets more interesting to talk about, since the eye, eyebrow, horns and grinning mouth are small enough to invite a different colour each, and a child can decide whether their triceratops is green, purple or something no dinosaur has ever been. The lifted foot is also a nice thing to point out and ask about: is it stepping, waving, or about to stomp?
Because the shapes are large and the outlines are thick and forgiving, this sits on the easier end for a preschooler working on staying inside the lines, while the frill sections and small facial details give slightly older children something more precise to aim for. It works well as a first dinosaur sheet for a three-year-old and still holds a four- or five-year-old's attention if they want to go slower and pick out every horn and toe.
How to use this sheet
Suggest starting with the body and tail, the biggest shapes, before moving to the trickier frill sections and face. If the horns or eye go outside the lines, cover it with a sticker or call it a battle scar rather than starting over.
