Series “Une souris verte” · sheet 2 of 5
Hello, school
Hello, school: a free printable coloring page, from age 4. Sheet 2 of 5 in the “Une souris verte” series, with the big building and its yard.
- Recommended age
- Ages 4 and up · 20 to 40 minutes
- Themes
- Storybook scenes, Animals, School
- Series
- Une souris verte · one of the five in the series
- Season
- Back to school
Outside the building
The school takes the whole middle of the page: a pitched roof, a chimney on the side, a round window at the top of the gable, a sign above the door and four windows with small panes. In front, the girl and the boy hold hands, eyes shut with laughter. The unicorn is on their right, its long wavy tail down to the ground, and the mouse sits at its feet, a bow on one ear. The sun, for its part, is beaming, surrounded by stars that have no business being there in broad daylight.
The second sheet of the series
Sheet 2 of 5 in the “Une souris verte” series. After the meadow, the little troop arrives outside the school, and the mouse follows without having been invited. The rhyme itself says nothing about school: it strings places together with no logic at all, and that is precisely what children like. The sheets do the same — one place per drawing, from the meadow to the house, with the same characters changing setting. This sheet is the most built of the five: it is the only one where a building takes the center.
From age 4
The building adds what the meadow did not have: right angles, alignments, and fifteen or so small areas that touch one another. Each window is divided into four panes, the door has its panels, the roof its edges, the chimney its cap. Staying inside those boxes asks for a wrist that is already steady — it is the kind of exercise a four-year-old seeks out, and that bores a younger one. The rest of the page, the grass and the trees, serves as a rest between two runs of small panes.
The sign, letter by letter
The sign above the door shows a word in outlined letters, big enough to be colored one by one. Changing color for each letter gives a very crisp result, and fills a long moment on a very small surface. For the building, two colors are enough — one for the walls, one for the roof and the frames — or the small areas go off in all directions. A well-sharpened colored pencil goes better than a marker in the window panes, which are barely a centimetre across.
A word for the grown-up: have each character named before starting, then give one to your child. Coloring “their” character first gives a clear goal to the one who circles the table without daring to start the page.
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.
