Astronaut and Rocket SPACE Words
Coloring guide
Under big bubble letters spelling SPACE, a smiling child astronaut floats weightlessly, waving one hand and wearing a helmet, chest control panel and backpack. Above the word, a rocket with a round porthole window and riveted bands blasts off with a fiery flame trail. Around them are a ringed planet, a crescent moon with craters, shooting stars, lumpy asteroids, a small striped planet and an Earth showing its continents. A cratered moon surface curves along the bottom, and little stars and dots fill every gap. Thick outlines and roomy letters work for younger kids, and the tiny stars give older children some detailed work. Rainbow shades on the SPACE letters and an orange and yellow rocket flame against deep blue would look striking. Print it at home for a fun afternoon. More like this: explore the Words, Activity Sheets and Alphabet coloring page collections.
A gentle color plan to get started — mix in your own anytime.
- golden yellow
- sky blue
- bright red
- peach
- amber
- grass green
- tangerine
- pale blue
- medium gray
- orange
- light gray
- steel blue
A suggested order, zone by zone — skip around as you like.
- 1Start with the big SPACE letters: color every letter golden yellow, leaving the small highlight curves on the letters white.
- 2Fill the sky blue clouds at the bottom left and right, then the Earth's ocean and the land in grass green.
- 3Color the rocket: bright red for the nose cone and the fins, and leave the main body and its side stripes white with sky blue stripes.
- 4Paint the flame trails in amber and orange, and fill the rocket window with pale blue, keeping a little white for the shine.
- 5Color the Saturn planet with tangerine, amber and golden yellow bands, plus the ring in amber, and add coral and orange bands to the small Mars planet.
- 6Fill the astronaut's face with peach, the gloves and boots in sky blue, and the chest panel in steel blue; keep the suit white and add gray to the moon craters and asteroids. Optional: add light gray shading under the suit for depth.
