Winking Star Colouring Page

This page has one large five-pointed star sitting in the middle, drawn with smooth rounded points rather than sharp ones. The star has a face: one eye open with a little round highlight, one eye scrunched shut in a wink, a curved eyebrow above the open eye, and a simple smile underneath. Around the star, in each corner of the page, is a four-pointed sparkle shape, like a little diamond with pinched sides. That gives four sparkles in total, each one separate from the others and from the star, so there is no crowding anywhere on the page.

The star itself is the main event, and it is made up of five broad triangular arms that a child can fill in with one steady colour, or five different ones if they would rather turn it into a patchwork. The face is small and sits right in the middle, so little hands get a bit of practice keeping colour inside a tighter curve for the eye and smile without the whole page depending on it. The sparkles are the easy part: four short, simple shapes spaced well apart, good for building confidence between the more careful bits of colouring.

There is nothing fiddly here and nothing that needs a fine-tipped pencil, which makes this one of the more forgiving sheets in the Nature & Weather set. It suits a child who is just starting to colour inside lines as much as one who wants a quick, satisfying page to finish in one sitting.