The windmill
The windmill: a free printable coloring page, from age 2. Four big petal-shaped sails, an arched door, and a unicorn horn planted on the roof.
- Recommended age
- Ages 2 and up · 10 to 15 minutes
- Theme
- On a journey
- Season
- Summer vacation
A windmill shaped like a flower
The windmill is seen face on, planted right in the middle of the page. Its body widens toward the bottom like a skirt, its roof is a simple rounded dome, and its four sails are not ordinary windmill sails: they are four large oval petals, set in a cross around a round double-outlined hub. Below, a round-arched door, tall and empty. And right at the top, sitting on the dome, a striped unicorn horn. That is the whole sheet: nothing behind, nothing beside, not even a ground line.
What a windmill is for
A windmill is a house that works: the wind turns the sails, the sails turn a millstone, and the millstone crushes the grain into flour. Children mostly meet them in books and at the roadside, and the question that comes back is always the same: does somebody live inside? On this sheet, the answer is easy. With a horn on the roof and a door at child height, it is indeed a house — and you can guess soon enough who keeps it.
Fewer than ten surfaces to fill
Count them: the four petals, the hub, the body of the mill, the roof, the door, the horn. The smallest — the hub — is already the size of a large coin, and the petals are wider than a small child’s hand. No sharp angle, no thin line, no area a fat marker cannot cover in three passes. It is the kind of drawing a two-year-old genuinely finishes, instead of abandoning halfway because the filling would not end.
Make the colors turn
The four petals call for a simple instruction: the top two in one color, the bottom two in another. The cross then reads at a glance, and the mill looks as if it is turning on the sheet. Keep the body in a pale tone — sand, beige, light gray — so the sails stand out. The horn lends itself to a gold pencil or to pastel markers: only three bands, quickly done, and it is the detail children want to take care over. Print on A4 portrait, with no reduction.
A word for the grown-up: before the pencils come out, run a finger round the hub at the center of the sails, one way and then the other. That small ritual gives the child the order in which to color the petals — and one petal at a time makes four steps instead of one chore.
Coloring pages that go with this one
More pages from the same theme, age or season — the ones you print right after.
