About this coloring page
A farm tractor stands on flat ground with a small front wheel and a huge back wheel ringed with chunky tread marks. The long engine hood has two grille lines, a tall exhaust stack rises near the front, and a ring-shaped steering wheel sits beside it. A boxy seat area rises over the big wheel.
The giant rear tire is the star here, and its tread blocks give older kids small spaces to fill one by one. Where the cab box overlaps the wheel, it helps to choose the wheel color first so the shapes stay easy to tell apart.
Color ideas
- Choose green or red for the hood and seat box, the two colors many farm tractors are known for.
- Fill the giant rear tire black and the tread blocks a dark gray so the grooves look deep.
- Draw gray smoke puffs above the exhaust stack and a brown field with green rows of crops behind the tractor.
Did you know?
- The word tractor comes from the Latin word trahere, which means to pull, because tractors were built to pull plows and farm machines.
- Big rear wheels with deep tread help a tractor grip soft, muddy soil so it can pull heavy loads without getting stuck.
- The earliest farm tractors were powered by steam engines before gasoline and diesel engines took over.
Try this
Make a list together of foods that start on a farm, like corn, wheat for bread or potatoes, and draw one of them growing in the field behind the tractor.
