Garden Spider Resting on a Sunflower Coloring Page

A sunflower takes up the whole upper two thirds of this page, with a full ring of long pointed petals around a wide circular center. The stem runs straight down to the bottom edge and carries two leaves, one large and one small.

The spider sits on the flower's center disc and faces forward. This is the most carefully observed animal in the collection. Its abdomen carries curved bands across it, its front body is a separate rounded segment, and eight jointed legs reach out across the petals, four to a side. Two small dots mark the eyes.

The center disc is left completely open, with no seed texture inside it. That is a gift for younger colorists and a blank to fill for older ones. Stippling or a spiral of small circles turns it into a convincing seed head in about five minutes.

Petals are long and separate, so each one takes a single stroke. The spider's legs cross over several of them, which creates small enclosed shapes where leg meets petal. Those are the only fiddly parts of the sheet.

Yellow petals and a brown middle is the fast version. The banded abdomen also rewards two tones of one color.