Carrot
Toddler · 2–3A crunchy carrot with leafy green tops. Color the pointy orange carrot and its leaves! It is a healthy way to talk about vegetables that grow underground and the animals that love them. Print it on A4 or US Letter, or color it online with tap-to-fill.
A triangle with leaves on top
A carrot is essentially a long triangle with a feathery top, and it is one of the few vegetables children reliably recognise in outline. The leaves are drawn as a separate region and are the fiddly part — thin, branching, and best approached with light scribbling rather than careful filling.
It is also a good example of a food where we eat the part that grows underground, which genuinely surprises children who have only seen carrots in a bag.
Growing one
Carrot tops regrow if you sit the cut end in a shallow dish of water on a windowsill. Nothing edible comes of it, but green shoots appear within a week, and for a four-year-old that is one of the most reliable pieces of plant science available for free. Colour the page while the top is growing.
Frequently asked questions
- Which part of a carrot do we eat?
- The root, which grows underground — the leafy top stays above the soil. Children who have only seen carrots in a bag find this genuinely surprising.
- What age is this page for?
- Two to five. The body is a simple large area; the leaves suit light, quick colouring rather than careful filling.