Adorable Baby Elephant With Big Floppy Ears Coloring Page

A baby elephant stands facing forward with its ears spread wide on both sides, small tusks showing, trunk hanging down and curling slightly at the tip. The eyes are large and lashed, the legs are short and round, and there is no background at all.

Ear to ear, the animal fills most of the page, so a very young child gets a large target and little chance of going wrong. Three and four year olds do well with this one. The ears carry a few long curved lines inside them, which an older child can use as a guide for shading.

An elephant does not have to be gray. Because the page is bare, whatever you choose becomes the whole picture, and a soft lilac or dusty pink baby elephant reads perfectly well at this level of cartooning.

Ears do more than hear. An African elephant pushes blood through the vessels in its ears to shed heat, which is why the species living in the hottest open country has the largest ears.