Sloth Wearing a Knitted Hat Coloring Page

Count the hat first, because it carries nearly all the line work on the page. A small gathered pom sits on top, below it the crown is split into eight long ribs that curve with the shape of the head, and the turned up brim is cross hatched into a grid of tiny squares that will take a second color well. Everything under the hat is deliberately plain. The sloth sits square to the reader with its body drawn as one wide pear shape, no fur strokes anywhere on it, and its two front paws meet at the bottom of that shape with three stubby claws on each. Two small rounded ears push out from under the brim. The eye patches are filled bands that sweep back from the nose toward the cheeks, and the nose is a soft rounded triangle. That split between a busy hat and an empty body is what makes the sheet work. A child can race through the big shapes and then slow down on the ribbing, or hand the hat over to someone with a finer pen. Winter palettes suit it, though nothing on the page insists on them.