Sleepy Cartoon Snake Curled Into a Spiral Coloring Page

This snake has wound its body into a flat spiral and closed its eye for a nap. The head sits up at the top on a long neck, and the face is nothing more than one closed curve for the eye and a small smile.

Be clear about what the spiral gives you. It is not a stack of many rings. The coil shuts into two nested areas, a wide outer one and a smaller inner one, and the raised neck makes a third, so there are three large shapes to plan and very little else on the paper.

A short ladder of bands runs down the back of the neck. That is the only pattern anywhere.

Stroke width sits near the top of this hub even though there is less ink here than on any other snake. Thick lines, wide gaps, nothing fiddly, and no corner tight enough to trap a crayon tip.

Real snakes do coil like this to hold their heat, so it is worth saying out loud before the crayons come out.

Three tones, one per area, finishes it. All that bare paper is deliberate.