Series “Petit escargot” · sheet 5 of 5
He pokes his head out
He pokes his head out: a free printable coloring page, from age 4. Sheet 5 of 5 in the “Petit escargot” series, the end of the song under the rain.
- Recommended age
- Ages 4 and up · 20 to 40 minutes
- Themes
- Storybook scenes, Little bugs
- Series
- Petit escargot · one of the five in the series
- Season
- Autumn and rainy days
Head out, under the last drops
A few drops are still falling, but nobody minds any more. The girl holds an open umbrella in one hand and a closed one in the other; her dress is dotted with hearts, a bow holds her plaited hair. The unicorn wears a crown of flowers and stars in its mane. The boy, arms wide, laughs outright. In front of them, the snail has poked its head out: its shell is a complete house, door, latticed window and chimney. Mushrooms have come up in the grass.
The last sheet of the series
Sheet 5 of 5 in the “Petit escargot” series. The song ends with the sun coming back and the head coming out; here the downpour has barely finished and the snail is already done waiting. It is the happy-ending sheet, the one you color when the other four are laid on the table. The mushrooms that come up after rain are a true detail, and children notice it at once: it is often their first lesson about the seasons, with nothing having to be said.
Large shapes, and plenty of small ones
The three characters are big and well separated, and the snail’s shell takes the bottom corner of the page on its own: a few passes of a marker go round it. But there is company around them. The hearts sown on the dress, the stars in the unicorn’s mane, the latticed window of the shell, the mushrooms in the grass and the last drops are all small shapes you have to aim at. That is what makes it a sheet for 4: at 2, you fill the shell and the three characters, and it is already a fine page — but it is not made to be finished at that age.
The one that goes on the wall
It is the one of the five that most often ends up on the fridge door: the scene is cheerful and reads from a distance. Give the three characters bold colors, and leave the ground pale so the puddles stay visible. Red with white dots on the mushrooms is the detail everybody looks at first. If you plan to put it up, print on 120 gsm paper: it does not buckle and holds under a magnet for months.
A word for the grown-up: lay the five finished sheets side by side on the table and sing the rhyme from start to finish, pointing at them one after another. Seeing all five laid out is what makes them want to start all over again.
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.
