Fruit Bat Hanging Beside a Ripe Mango Coloring Page

This is the lightest drawing in the set. The line is fine and even throughout, closer to a pen sketch than the thick cartoon outlines on most of these pages, which changes how it should be colored: pencils suit it, heavy markers will swamp it.

A bare branch runs across the upper part of the sheet, forking twice toward the left. From it hangs a large mango, drawn as one smooth oval on a short curved stem with no texture inside at all. Beside it, gripping the same branch with both feet, is the bat.

It hangs head down with its long snout pointing at the floor, one ear visible, a single dot for the eye, and its wings folded flat against its sides in long tapering shapes. The folds in the closed wing are drawn with two or three light lines rather than a full set of fingers.

Below the pair, the bottom of the page is bare. That emptiness and the delicate line together give the sheet a calm, almost botanical feel. It is a better fit for an older child or an adult than for a toddler, simply because the lines are thin enough to color over without noticing.