Family Apple Picking In An Orchard Coloring Page

A family is picking apples between two rows of trees, with an adult steadying a short ladder, a child reaching up into the branches, and a younger one holding a basket that is already full. Apples hang in clusters overhead and a few have rolled onto the grass. The lines are clean and the shapes are generous, with minimal background detail, so this suits children of around four to nine and works well as a classroom sheet.

All those apples are an opportunity. Rather than coloring every one the same red, suggest mixing red, green and yellow-green through the tree, which is how a real orchard looks and stops the canopy going flat. A little green left showing at the top of each apple near the stalk makes them look freshly picked. Crayons or thick pencils are fine throughout.

There are more kinds of apple than most people imagine. Growers around the world cultivate something over seven thousand named varieties, in every color from near-white through yellow and green to a red so dark it is almost purple, which is a good excuse to color this tree however you like.