Series “Une souris verte” · sheet 3 of 5
The park under the stars
The park under the stars: a free printable coloring page, from age 6. Sheet 3 of 5 in the “Une souris verte” series, with the swing and the slide.
- Recommended age
- Ages 6 and up · an hour, often over two days
- Themes
- Storybook scenes, Animals, The park
- Series
- Une souris verte · one of the five in the series
Swing, slide, twig
The park is equipped: a swing on the left, under its frame, and a slide on the right, with its rung ladder. The three friends take the foreground, the unicorn in the middle, a flower tucked in its mane and stars on its rump. The mouse sits in front of them, a bow on one ear, a bow tie at its neck, and a small leafy twig gripped in one paw. The boy wears a cap turned backwards and a crescent moon on his pocket. In the sky, three hearts float among the stars.
The middle of the series
Sheet 3 of 5 in the “Une souris verte” series. It is the middle of the journey, between the school and the beach, and the most crowded sheet of the five: a swing, a slide, four characters and a curtain of trees running from one edge to the other. The rhyme itself holds in four lines and never mentions a park — it is the drawings that walk the mouse from place to place. A child who knows the song by heart is not surprised for a second.
The most crowded of the five
Nothing here is difficult taken on its own: the four characters stand side by side without overlapping, each with a closed contour. The slide’s chute is one long unbroken band, the swing seat a rectangle, the foliage round masses. It is the number of places that makes the difficulty: the frame, the rung ladder, the mouse’s bows, the cap and the hearts in the sky. It does not get finished at one go. The mouse’s big ears, two clean discs, are often the first thing colored — and often the best-done part of the page.
The stars and hearts, to finish
Keep the sky for last. The three stars and three hearts are tiny, precise gestures, perfect for when attention drops and there is no energy left to fill a large area. Yellow on the stars, pink or red on the hearts, and the page is done. For the rest, a single green over all the grass saves having to decide twenty times over: it is the background, it holds the scene, and the characters stand out all the better for its staying plain.
A word for the grown-up: ask your child which they would climb on first, the swing or the slide, then color that one together before anything else. Choosing before starting turns an imposed page into one of their own.
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.
