Smiling Planet Earth Coloring Page

A cartoon planet Earth takes up almost the whole sheet and grins straight out at the colorist. The outline is one big circle, so a young child can fill the background in a single sweep without chasing corners. Continents sit inside that circle as loose open shapes, drawn with gentle curves rather than accurate coastlines. Two large eyes carry solid black pupils with a white highlight already left in, so nobody has to draw the shine. Curved eyebrows sit above them and a wide open mouth shows a rounded tongue below. Line weight stays thick and even across the drawing, which is what makes this one hold up under fat crayons and under markers that bleed. Count the fillable areas and you get the space around the globe, the ocean, the land masses, the mouth, the tongue and the two eye whites. That is few enough for a three year old to finish in one sitting and enough for a five year old to pick a different green for each continent. Teachers reach for this sheet first on Earth Day morning because it needs no explanation. Print it on standard letter paper. The art sits well inside the margins, so nothing important lands in the printer's dead zone.