Three Turtles Stacked on a Floating Log

Coloring guide
Picture a tower of three happy turtles out on a pond. The biggest one stands on a floating log with its front feet planted on the bark, a medium turtle rides on top of its shell, and the smallest sits at the very top with a huge grin. All three have large sparkling eyes and open, smiling mouths. Big, easy panels on the shells are great for small hands and chunky crayons. Gentle ripples spread across the water, a lily pad floats in the lower corner, and tall cattails and grass rise on both sides. The cut end of the log shows a round ring pattern. Give each shell a different shade of green so every turtle is easy to tell apart, then use warm brown for the log and cattails. Free to print for quiet time at home or school. Add this to your Turtle coloring page collection, alongside Dolphin and Shark.
A gentle color plan to get started — mix in your own anytime.
- warm brown
- lime green
- sky blue
- moss green
- soft yellow
- forest green
- golden tan
- coral pink
A suggested order, zone by zone — skip around as you like.
- 1Start with the water: color the pond and the lily pads in sky blue, leaving the lily pads' outlines clear for the moss green touches.
- 2Fill the cattails and reed grass with forest green and moss green, and color the cattail tops in warm brown.
- 3Color the three turtle heads in lime green, then fill all the shell plates with warm brown, keeping each plate separate.
- 4Paint the log in warm brown and its round end in golden tan with a few soft yellow rings, then add the pale belly areas in soft yellow.
- 5Color the turtle legs in moss green and lime green, and tint the mouths coral pink.
- 6Optional: Leave the claws, eye whites and small highlights white, and add a darker brown shadow along the bottom of each shell for depth.
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