Rattlesnake With Its Rattle Raised Coloring Page

The rattle is the whole point of this sheet, so the tail curls up and holds it clear of the ground where you can see it properly. Count it before you color it. Three rounded segments stack one on the next and finish in a sharp tip, and that is the lot. It is a small shape, so a dark tone will help it read.

The body lies stretched along the ground with the head low at the front, mouth open and tongue out. Seven open diamonds run down the back, two of them clipped where the body turns, and a row of short rectangles sits above them along the spine. A few loose ground lines mark the desert floor and stop the animal from floating.

A rattlesnake adds a segment each time it sheds its skin, and that happens more than once a year, so counting segments says less about its age than people expect.

This is the most detailed of the realistic sheets. Alternate two shades through the diamonds, keep the spine rectangles lighter, and reach for pencils rather than markers to hold those edges.