Tiny Dragon Curled Around A Glowing Candle Coloring Page

A small dragon has wrapped itself around a candle and is holding on with both front feet, cheek resting against the wax. A single large flame rises from the wick, its tail curls around the base of the holder, and a row of soft spines runs down its back. The candle sits in a wide dish with a curved handle.

Almost nothing else is drawn, which keeps this well within reach of a five year old. The flame is the one shape that asks for care, and it is large enough to take two or three tones if a child wants to try.

Lay the warmest color you have at the base of the flame and the palest at the tip. That single move makes the candle look lit rather than outlined.

Small hoard guarding dragons appear in Norse stories long before the huge ones did. Scale was never the point. What mattered was that the creature wanted something and would not let it go.