Patterned Maple Leaf Coloring Page

A single maple leaf takes up almost the whole page here, standing on a long stem with five pointed lobes fanning out above it. Thick veins split the leaf into sections, and the two lower lobes carry the heaviest decoration: tight spirals, rings of open circles and long curling strokes that reach right out to the serrated edge. The top lobe keeps a lighter pattern of curved lines, which gives your eye somewhere to rest. Treat each small circle as its own unit and the page becomes a slow, meditative sheet. Treat the leaf as one shape and a child can finish it in five minutes with a single crayon. Both approaches work on the same print, which is why this one suits a mixed age table. The outline is bold enough to cut around once colored, and the result makes a good window decoration in October when the real leaves outside are doing the same thing. Try a gradient across the lobes, red at the tips fading to yellow at the base, and leave the patterned shapes white so they read as highlights.