Skeleton Dog Carrying a Bone Coloring Page

A dog skeleton stands in profile with its head turned out toward you, and it is carrying a bone almost as wide as its own body.

The bone sits crosswise in the jaws and runs right across the chest, with a rounded knob at each end. It is the first thing the eye lands on and the largest clear area on the sheet. Above it the long muzzle opens into a grin, a dark nose caps the snout, and two floppy ears hang down on either side of the head. The sockets are drawn unevenly, one as a filled dark circle and one as a thin open ring.

Behind the head the spine runs back in short segments, the ribs show as a row of curved strokes along the flank, and the tail lifts and curls upward in banded sections. Four legs reach the ground, each one ending in a rounded paw with toe lines scored across it.

The mix of a very large simple shape and a lot of small repeated ones makes this a good page for a child who gets bored halfway. The bone goes fast. The ribs and paws take longer.