About this coloring page
A sea turtle swims with its round, smiling head poking out to the right. Its shell has a large oval panel in the middle and a ring of smaller panels around the edge, and three pointed flippers stick out from the sides. Two bubbles float overhead.
The panels around the shell make this page a fun sorting job: one color for the big middle panel and another color, or a pattern, for the ring. Lines cross near the top and bottom of the ring, so a few of those panels are small.
Color ideas
- Color the big center panel of the shell a golden brown and the ring of panels around it a darker brown.
- Make every other panel in the outer ring green and the rest yellow for a patterned shell.
- Color the head and three flippers a soft olive green with darker green spots.
Did you know?
- A sea turtle's shell is part of its skeleton, so it can never crawl out of it.
- The panels on a turtle's shell are called scutes.
- Female sea turtles come ashore to dig nests in the sand and lay their eggs, often on the same beach where they hatched.
Try this
Try a pattern challenge on the outer ring of the shell: can you keep a repeating order of two or three colors going all the way round?
