Kids Planting a Young Tree Sapling in the Garden
Coloring guide
In this garden scene, a smiling boy and girl team up to plant a small leafy sapling. The boy wears a short-sleeved shirt, shorts and sneakers, and holds a shovel beside a mound of loose soil. The girl has a ponytail and overalls rolled at the ankles, plus sneakers, and she tips a watering can so droplets fall onto the young plant. A wooden picket fence, bushes, a tree trunk on the right and tufts of grass sit behind them. Thick outlines and open spaces suit preschoolers and early elementary kids, and the sapling's leaves are big enough for small hands. Fresh greens for the leaves, rich brown for the soil and bright blue for the water drops work well. Free to print, and a good match for Earth Day or spring gardening lessons. More like this: explore the Tree, City and Solar System & Space coloring page collections.
A gentle color plan to get started — mix in your own anytime.
- light green
- light peach
- purple
- sky blue
- orange
- brown
- grass green
- royal blue
- gray
- red
- wood tan
- pink
A suggested order, zone by zone — skip around as you like.
- 1Fill the faces, necks, arms and legs with light peach, leaving the eyes, teeth, socks and shoe soles white.
- 2Color the boy's hair brown and the girl's hair and ponytail orange.
- 3Color the boy's t-shirt sky blue and his shorts royal blue, then the girl's pink shirt and purple overalls.
- 4Fill the bushes, tree leaves and the grass patch behind the plant with grass green and light green, keeping the sapling's leaves grass green with lime green on the bright ones.
- 5Color the fence wood tan, the tree trunk brown, the shovel blade gray, and the watering can red with dark red on its rim.
- 6Optional: Add a little darker green or purple at the edges of shapes to make the picture pop.
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