Frog on a Lily Pad Watching a Fish Coloring Page

The waterline runs straight across the middle of this sheet and splits it into two worlds. Above it, a frog sits on a lily pad in the open air. Below it, a fish swims past in the green water underneath. That split is what makes the page worth coloring, because you can treat the two halves as separate pictures and give each one its own palette. Leave the top half bright and the water below a deeper blue green, and the sheet reads as depth rather than as two drawings on one page. A frog lives on both sides of that line, which is the point worth making while your child works. It breathes air through its lungs and skin at the top and swims underwater with the fish whenever it wants to, so the waterline is a door rather than a wall. The shapes are large and the outlines are thick throughout. The fish gives you one smooth body and a wide tail, the lily pad gives you one big oval, and there are no small gaps anywhere. This sheet suits ages four and up.