Sloth Asleep in a Hammock Coloring Page

Both ends of the hammock run off the paper, left and right, so the sling reads as part of something larger that was never drawn. Inside it the sloth lies back with its eyes shut into two downward curves, cheeks pushed up by a grin that takes up most of the lower face, and one arm flung over each side of the cloth. Three long claws hook over the near edge on both sides. The sling itself is two lines and a gather at each end, where a handful of short strokes fan out toward the edge of the sheet to suggest the rope. There is no pattern on the cloth, which leaves a long smooth band across the middle of the page for stripes, a plaid, or whatever a colorist wants to put there. No leaves, no trunk and no ground are drawn anywhere around it. The top quarter and the bottom third of the sheet are blank paper, so the whole scene floats in the middle with plenty of room around it. That emptiness is the strongest argument for printing this one at full page size and adding a sky, a pair of tree trunks, or a sun of your own.