Number 5 With a Turtle Coloring Page

Five is the number a child meets every time they look at a hand, which makes it one of the easiest to teach and one of the most useful to know by heart. Before the colouring starts, hold up one hand, spread the fingers, and count them together, then point at the numeral on the page and say the word once more. Linking the symbol to something a child carries around with them is worth more than any amount of repetition. The number is drawn very large with a flat top bar, a straight downstroke and a wide belly, three parts a child can trace separately before joining them into one movement. A friendly turtle sits beside it with a rounded shell drawn in plain open panels, and that shell is the best part of the page to colour because every panel can take a different colour. Everything prints as clean black line art on white paper. Download the free PDF and print it at full size on US Letter paper.