About this coloring page
A friendly astronaut floats in space wearing a big round bubble helmet with a curved shine mark across the glass. The puffy suit has a rectangular control panel and a round button on the chest, chunky arms and two boot-shaped legs. Sparkles and a small dot drift nearby.
The helmet is the largest space on the page, and it is fun to decide what is inside: a face, a reflection of stars, or a tinted visor. Chunky arms and legs keep the rest quick to fill, so even young children can finish the whole suit.
Color ideas
- Keep the suit white or very light gray, and color the chest panel with bright buttons and screens.
- Draw your child's own face inside the bubble helmet, or color the glass gold like a real sun visor.
- Make the round chest button red and the boots a darker gray than the suit.
Did you know?
- The visors on many astronauts' helmets have a very thin coating of real gold, which helps block the harsh glare of sunlight in space.
- Yuri Gagarin became the first person to travel into space in 1961.
- Astronauts float inside a space station because the station and everyone in it are falling around Earth together, so nothing presses them to the floor.
Try this
Try putting on gloves and then picking up small toys or buttoning a coat, to feel how tricky simple jobs are for astronauts in bulky suits.
