Gossip Time on the Floor with Five Lego Friends

A gentle color plan to get started — mix in your own anytime.

• denim blue
• light skin tone
• peach
• butter yellow
• lavender purple
• pale sky blue
• hot pink
• auburn brown
• baby pink
• lilac purple
• chestnut brown
• bright blue

A suggested order, zone by zone — skip around as you like.

1. 1Start with the sky on the easel canvas and the big hot air balloon: color the canvas sky with pale sky blue and the balloon with butter yellow, leaving the background white.
2. 2Fill the skin on all five girls with light skin tone and peach, then color the blonde hair with butter yellow and the brown hair with auburn brown and chestnut brown.
3. 3Color the jeans with denim blue and the skateboard with bright blue, then add the purple top and lavender purple pants on the left girl.
4. 4Add the pink tops with hot pink, baby pink and salmon pink, the green striped shirt with mint green, and the denim vest with aqua blue.
5. 5Color the sunglasses slate gray, the paint cup golden yellow, the red ruler cherry red, and the book stack plum purple.
6. 6Optional: Add a little shading with a darker shade of each color on hair and shirts, and keep the eye whites, laptop screen, shoes and map paper white for sparkle.