Series “Une souris verte” · sheet 4 of 5
A turn along the beach
A turn along the beach: a free printable coloring page, from age 6. Sheet 4 of 5 in the “Une souris verte” series, with the palm trees and the waves.
- Recommended age
- Ages 6 and up · an hour, often over two days
- Themes
- Storybook scenes, Animals, On a journey
- Series
- Une souris verte · one of the five in the series
- Season
- Summer vacation
Palm trees, sand and shells
Three palm trees lean to the left, their ringed trunks cut into small segments. The sand takes up almost the whole page, dotted with fine ripples and three fan-shaped shells. Bottom right, the sea arrives in lines of waves following one another to the edge. The unicorn stands in profile, a flower in its mane, the mouse standing against its shoulder. The girl and the boy hold hands, she in a striped dress, he in shorts, both with their eyes shut with laughter. The sun beats down at the top right.
The fourth sheet of the series
Sheet 4 of 5 in the “Une souris verte” series. It is the palest of the five: a lot of white, few objects, a clear horizon. The rhyme speaks of oil and water — the mouse is dipped in both — and this is the only sheet in the series where the water really is there, within a paw’s reach. You can sing it while coloring and stop on that line to point at the sea. After the beach, only one drawing is left: the one of coming home.
Almost everything here is narrow
The waves are drawn in fine parallel lines following the shore: coloring them asks for an even gesture, carried from one end to the other without lifting the hand. The palm trunks are cut into tight little bands, the fronds into long narrow points, and the ripples of the sand into isolated strokes. Nothing is large on this sheet except the sand itself: almost everything fits within two centimetres. That is what makes it interesting from age 6, when holding the line becomes an exercise you set yourself rather than one you endure.
Three blues for the sea
Take out three blues and line them up from lightest to darkest: the light one against the sand, the medium in the middle, the dark right at the back. It is the simplest way to introduce a gradient without ever using the word. The sand gets the opposite treatment: a very pale beige, laid lightly, almost nothing — or it crushes the rest. The shells deserve a color of their own, pink or mauve, so they are found at first glance on a page where everything is pale.
A word for the grown-up: keep this sheet for a car journey or a waiting room. The sea and the sand color for a very long time, and no small detail has to be got right for the page to stand up.
The other sheets of “Une souris verte”
The sheets are drawn on the theme of the same song. Same characters, same line: you print them together.
Coloring pages that go with this one
More pages from the same theme, age or season — the ones you print right after.
