Frog Among Lily Pads and Cattails Coloring Page

This is the pond scene of the set. A frog rests on a broad lily pad, two tall cattails stand behind it on straight stems with a plain rounded head at the top of each one, and open water lilies float to the right with their petals drawn one by one. The scene gives you three separate greens to play with if you want them, since the pad, the cattail leaves and the frog can each take a different shade, and the page reads better when they do. The water sits as plain open paper between the pads, so you can leave it white for a bright pond or lay down a pale blue wash for depth. The cattail heads are the one place a solid dark brown looks right and will not flatten anything around it. Start with the lily flowers while the page is clean, because their petals are the narrowest shapes here. A second pad floats down in the corner as a place to rest your hand. Older children and adults will both get an hour out of this one.