Sloth Waving From a Tree Trunk

Both arms go straight up on this one, hands open and fingers spread, which reads as a wave, a stretch or a cheer depending on how you look at it. The gesture makes the sheet friendlier than the usual sleeping sloth and puts two big open hands at the top of the page where they are easy to color. The animal grips a slim vertical trunk with its lower body, and the trunk runs from the bottom edge up past the left shoulder with a few long grain lines down it. The body is round and almost entirely blank inside, with a soft line marking the belly and a fringe of spiky fur around the head and along one flank. Two shaded patches frame the eyes and a rounded nose sits between them above a broad smile. Beyond the trunk the sheet carries no scenery whatsoever. That emptiness makes it a good candidate for a child to fill in with their own jungle, and the thick outlines survive heavy crayon work without smudging into each other.