About this coloring page
A five-pointed sea star sits on the sand with five small circles across its middle. Beside it is a round scallop shell with ribs fanning out from the bottom, and up in the corner a spiral shell curls around. Two pebbles rest on the sand line.
The star's straight points and the scallop's ribs are both simple shapes to fill, so this is a lovely beach-day page. The scallop ribs make thin stripes for children who want to try alternating colors.
Color ideas
- Color the sea star orange and the five small circles purple, like the bumps on a real sea star.
- Fill the stripes between the ribs of the scallop shell with alternating pink and cream.
- Give the spiral shell a sandy tan color and make the pebbles gray and white.
Did you know?
- Scientists like to call starfish "sea stars" because they are not fish at all.
- A sea star can grow back an arm that it has lost.
- Scallops have rows of tiny eyes along the edge of their shells.
Try this
If you have a shell collection, sort the shells into fan-shaped ones like the scallop and spiral ones like the shell in the corner.
