Monkey Mandala With Jungle Leaves and Bananas Coloring Page

A monkey stares straight out from the middle of this mandala, and everything else radiates from that face in rings. The innermost band is a collar of feathered fur. Beyond it sit broad veined leaves, pointed buds and small round berries, spaced at regular intervals all the way out to the rim.

The face carries the finest work on the page. Fur around the brow and cheeks is drawn in short curved strokes, the eyes are fully rendered with a highlight left in each, and the muzzle is built from a tight pattern of hatching. A fine tipped pen is the right tool there.

Choose a palette before you begin. A mandala only reads as one when matching elements in a ring share a color, so decide what the leaves are, what the buds are and what the berries are, then work outward one band at a time. Breaking the symmetry halfway through is the single mistake that cannot be repaired afterward.

This is the densest sheet on the hub and the one aimed squarely at adults. Give it an hour and use pencils, because the enclosed areas out near the rim are small enough that a marker will bleed straight across them.