Series “Petit escargot” · sheet 4 of 5
As soon as it rains
As soon as it rains: a free printable coloring page, from age 6. Sheet 4 of 5 in the “Petit escargot” series, the downpour and the umbrellas.
- Recommended age
- Ages 6 and up · an hour, often over two days
- Themes
- Storybook scenes, Little bugs
- Series
- Petit escargot · one of the five in the series
- Season
- Autumn and rainy days
Two clouds, two umbrellas
Two smiling clouds let go of their drops at the top of the page, and the rain comes down in small strokes over the whole height. The girl has pulled on a raincoat with pockets and a pair of boots, the boy a rain hat; each holds an open umbrella, cut into segments. The starry unicorn walks on the left, under the downpour. In the foreground, the snail is the only one delighted: its shell has become a real spiral house, with two arched windows and a chimney. Puddles spread across the path.
The moment the song is waiting for
Sheet 4 of 5 in the “Petit escargot” series. This is the line every child knows: as soon as it rains, the snail goes home. The sheet takes it literally — the house is there, on its back, doors and windows included. Real snails do the opposite, though: they come out when it rains and hide in the sun. That contradiction amuses them a great deal, and it is a good reason to go and inspect a garden wall the day after a shower.
From age 6, because of the drops
The drops are the real work on this sheet: a hundred or so small almond shapes scattered everywhere, right to the edges. Filling them takes a patience that comes late — and they can also be left white, the page stands up all the same. Then there is everything around them: the segments of the umbrellas, the pockets of the raincoat, the boots, the windows of the shell, the puddles on the path. All those areas are properly closed by a clean line, none is tiny. Count on half an hour without the drops, twice that with them.
A sheet for bringing out the grays
This is the chance to lay down something other than bright colors: gray, slate blue, violet for the sky and the puddles, then two good bold yellows for the rainwear, which stands out all the more. The umbrellas gain from alternating two shades, every other segment. With watercolor pencils, one pass of a damp brush on the sky alone is enough to give the downpour. The puddles on the path hold with a simple flat gray. Let it dry flat: the paper buckles if you lift it too soon.
A word for the grown-up: keep this sheet for a real rainy day. Coloring the downpour while it beats on the window changes everything, and holds them far longer than a sunny day would.
The other sheets of “Petit escargot”
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.
