Pineapple
Preschool · 3–5A tropical pineapple with a spiky green crown. Color the fruit and the leaves! A fun way to talk about fruit from warm places. Print it on A4 or US Letter, or color it online with tap-to-fill.
A pattern with a crown on top
A pineapple is a body covered in a diamond grid with a spray of spiky leaves above it, which makes it the most texture-heavy page in this set. The grid is a genuine repeating pattern, and it is one of the few naturally occurring ones a child will meet on a piece of fruit.
The leaves are sharp and angular, in deliberate contrast to the rounded body. Two very different kinds of shape on one page is unusual here and makes it a more interesting thing to colour.
Patterns in nature
Pineapple skin, pine cones, honeycomb, the scales on a fish — repeating patterns turn up in nature constantly, and once a child starts looking they find them everywhere. This page is a good place to start that habit, because the pattern is large enough to see clearly.
Frequently asked questions
- What age is this page for?
- Four to seven. The diamond grid needs more patience than the simpler fruit pages, which is the appeal for older children.
- Should the grid be coloured in individually?
- It does not need to be. A single colour across the body with the grid lines showing through works well, and picking out only a few diamonds in a second shade looks better than doing all of them.