One-Octopus Band with Four Instruments
Coloring guide
Four instruments at once? This cheerful octopus manages it. One tentacle shakes a pair of maracas with zigzag patterns, another holds a flute to its smiling mouth, a third strums an acoustic guitar, and two more tap drumsticks on a round drum that has a triangle design around the side. Music notes drift all around, and a few wavy seaweed plants and small pebbles sit in the bottom corners. Big round eyes and a spotted head give kids plenty of fun details to color. Orange or purple works well for the octopus, with bright contrasting colors on the maracas and a warm wood-brown for the guitar. It's a free printable for music lessons, rainy afternoons or a quiet classroom activity with crayons or markers. This fits right in with our Octopus coloring pages — see also Dolphin and Shark.
A gentle color plan to get started — mix in your own anytime.
- lavender purple
- golden yellow
- bright red
- cream
- light green
- grass green
- bright blue
- sky blue
- warm tan
- pale pink
A suggested order, zone by zone — skip around as you like.
- 1Color the whole octopus body, head, and tentacles lavender purple, leaving the small eye whites and the tiny highlight dots on the arm white.
- 2Fill the guitar body and neck with golden yellow, then color the drum's yellow lower panels and the maraca stripes the same shade.
- 3Color the drum's upper panels and the top of both maracas bright red, and fill the drum rims and bottom band bright blue.
- 4Paint the seaweed with grass green and light green, and color the two maraca bottoms bright blue and the maraca handles warm tan.
- 5Color the flute sky blue and the flute end with a light touch of the same blue, then add pale pink spots on the octopus head.
- 6Optional: Add a little darker purple shading along the tentacle undersides and the drum's shadowed edge to give depth.
More Octopus Coloring Pages
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Waving Octopus Next to Seaweed and Rocks
Bubble-Blowing Octopus with Three Striped Fish
Sleepy Octopus Tucked into a Scallop Shell
Circus Octopus Juggling Four Striped Balls
Busy Reef Scene with a Big-Eyed Octopus
Bookworm Octopus in Round Glasses
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