American Flag Waving With Detailed Stars And Stripes Coloring Page

A flag flies out to the right from a plain pole topped with a small ball, drawn so you can see the fabric moving. The stripes run as long parallel lines that bend and dip across the width, following the ripple, and each one is left completely empty. The canton in the upper corner is filled with five pointed stars, each a clean outline with nothing inside, set out in loose rows that step slightly as they cross.

Worth saying plainly: this is a flag drawn by hand, not a diagram. The stars number somewhere in the low twenties depending on how you count two that overlap, and the stripes do not come to thirteen either. For a child learning the real numbers that makes it a better page rather than a worse one, because the gap is something to notice.

As a coloring job it is unusually clean. Every area is open, nothing is shaded, and the shapes are large.

Flag etiquette has a rule for this exact drawing: the union, the star field, always goes at the top left as you look at it, whichever way the flag is facing. It is why you see it reversed on the right sleeve of a uniform.