Jumping Spider With Big Round Eyes Coloring Page

This one looks straight out of the page at you. Two enormous round eyes sit high on a single round body, each one a wide black disc with a small white highlight inside it and a clean outer ring left blank for color. Below and between them sits a small curved smile, and nothing else is drawn on the face.

The head on view is the whole idea. Jumping spiders really do have forward facing eyes like this, and drawing them from the front is why children who dislike spiders tend to like this sheet. It reads as curious rather than creepy.

Count the legs and the answer is eight, four on each side. The top two on each side angle up and out past the eyes, and the lower two sweep down below the body. Each one bends at a knee and tapers to a point, and the set opens like a fan rather than a wheel.

The figure floats on bare paper with no ground line and no shadow under it. Close to a third of the sheet is empty above the spider and about a quarter below it, so there is room for a child to add a web.

Outlines are bold and there are only a handful of shapes inside them, so this prints well at reduced size. The eyes are the real decision. Leave the white highlight in each pupil alone and they look wet and alive. Fill it in and they go flat.