Panda
Toddler · 2–3A calm panda face with round black ears, two tilted eye patches, and a little button nose. Pandas are the perfect page for talking about which parts stay white — most children want to fill every shape, so choosing to leave the face blank is a real decision to make together. The patches and ears are the same color, which makes a nice matching game before the crayons come out. Coloring a panda leads easily into talking about bamboo, about animals that live far away, and about black and white as colors of their own. Print it on A4 or US Letter, or color it online with tap-to-fill.
The eye patches are the point
A panda is a white bear with black patches in very specific places, and this page draws the eye patches as their own region so they can be coloured properly. Get them right and the animal is unmistakable; get them wrong and it is a bear.
Like the penguin and the snowman, much of this page is meant to stay white, which makes it a good one for a child learning that not every area needs filling.
A bear that eats bamboo
Pandas are bears with the digestive system of a meat eater, which handles bamboo badly — so they have to eat enormous quantities of it, for ten to sixteen hours a day. That inefficiency is a genuinely interesting fact and explains why so much panda footage is of an animal sitting down eating.
Frequently asked questions
- Why do pandas eat so much bamboo?
- Their digestive system is built for meat and handles bamboo poorly, so they have to eat huge amounts — often ten to sixteen hours a day — to get enough from it.
- What age is this page for?
- Two to five. Five regions, and a colour scheme most children already know.
