Hippo Yawning in the Water Coloring Page

Almost nothing on this page is complicated, and a young child can finish it in one sitting. The hippo has surfaced with its mouth open as wide as it goes, so the head splits into a broad upper jaw curving back over the skull and a lower jaw hanging below, with a handful of blunt rounded teeth between them. The inside of the mouth is one big open area. It takes a soft pink well and is the only part of the sheet that really needs a second color. Small round ears sit on top of the head and a single eye peers out just behind the snout. The body is a smooth humped shape with no texture marks at all, cut off cleanly at the waterline. Around it, four loose oval rings spread out across the surface to show the water moving. Those rings are wide apart and easy to follow with a crayon. With so much bare paper on the page there is room for a child to add fish, birds or a sun without crowding anything already drawn.