Series “Coccinelle demoiselle” · sheet 3 of 5
The two ladybugs
The two ladybugs: a free printable coloring page, from age 4. Sheet 3 of 5 in the “Coccinelle demoiselle” series, the middle of the song.
- Recommended age
- Ages 4 and up · 20 to 40 minutes
- Themes
- Storybook scenes, Little bugs
- Series
- Coccinelle demoiselle · one of the five in the series
- Season
- Spring
Two ladybugs, wings open
There are two of them this time, and both have opened their wings. The one on the left has landed in the grass by the path; the one on the right balances on a big daisy, in the middle of the petals. Above them, the little girl in overalls raises a hand to wave, the unicorn has sat down in the grass, and the boy in the ribbed hat laughs beside her. Three trees close off the background, round hills pass behind, and the bottom of the page fills with tulips, tufts of grass and little flowers.
The middle of the series
Sheet 3 of 5 in the “Coccinelle demoiselle” series, which is the exact middle of the song. This is the moment when the ladybug is no longer alone: you sing while watching the two insects, wings open, ready to set off toward the sky. In the rhyme you ask the ladybug to stay a little longer, and it is always just as it finds another one that it ends up flying away. The next sheet takes the three friends to the park, the last one as far as the school.
Twice almost the same thing
Two ladybugs almost alike, but not quite: the wings do not open at the same angle, the spots do not fall in the same places. Coloring them one after the other invites a child to compare, then to decide whether to make them identical or different. That is a real decision, and it belongs to them. There are also many small areas: the tulips, the stripes of the hat, the petals of the daisy. At about 4, the hand holds the pencil well enough to tackle them without the page turning into discouragement.
Two large pale surfaces
The open wings leave two large pale surfaces, the widest on the page. That is where a watercolor pencil gives the most: you color normally, then run a barely damp brush over it, and the red softens toward the edges. Plan on 160 gsm paper if you have it, or the water buckles the sheet. Another idea, if you stay with markers: make one ladybug red and the other orange, keeping the same black spots — the two insects stay a pair, and the page breathes.
A word for the grown-up: ask “which one is the mother?”. Your child immediately invents a story to justify their choice — the bigger one, the one with the most spots, the one on the flower. The coloring then becomes a language moment as much as a pencil one.
The other sheets of “Coccinelle demoiselle”
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.
