Village Sunrise Dove Coloring for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Coloring guide
A white dove glides across the top of the page with its wings spread wide, a leafy olive branch in its beak. Behind it, a half sun rises over a small village, long straight rays fanning across the sky. The village has several houses with chimneys and pitched roofs, plus a church with a tall steeple and a cross on top, and fluffy bushes sit behind the buildings. A garden fills the bottom of the page with big sunflowers, tulips, daisies and plenty of leaves. The dove's layered feathers are good for practicing careful, small strokes, while the large flower petals work for younger kids. Soft gray or light blue shading suits the dove's wings, and warm yellow and orange fit the sun and its rays. Grab this free printable for a quick coloring break whenever you like. This fits right in with our Martin Luther King Jr. Day coloring pages — see also Christmas and Halloween.
A gentle color plan to get started — mix in your own anytime.
- golden yellow
- tomato red
- pale cream
- leaf green
- forest green
- lime green
- chocolate brown
- dark mustard
- sandy tan
A suggested order, zone by zone — skip around as you like.
- 1Color the big rising sun and the sunflower petals golden yellow, leaving the sky and dove white.
- 2Fill the sunflower centers and the sun's ray-like background details carefully with chocolate brown, adding small dots for texture.
- 3Paint the house walls and church tower pale cream, then color the house roofs and the church steeple tomato red.
- 4Color the tulips tomato red, and fill the stems, leaves and bushes with leaf green and lime green.
- 5Leave the dove, its wing feathers and the daisy petals white, and add golden yellow centers to the daisies.
- 6Optional: add a sandy tan door and dark mustard shadows under the sunflowers and bushes for depth.
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