Smiling Sun
Toddler · 2–3This cheerful smiling sun is a perfect first coloring page for toddlers aged two and three. The design uses just a few large, clearly separated areas — the sun, its rays, and the sky — so little ones can fill each space without frustration. Coloring the sun is a natural moment to talk about colors found in nature: the warm yellow and orange of sunshine and the soft blue of the sky. As your child works, they practice grip, hand control, and the early idea of staying inside the lines. Print it on A4 or US Letter for a crisp, ink-friendly page, or tap 'Color Online' to fill it in on a tablet with our guided color hints. It is a calm, happy activity for quiet time, a rainy afternoon, or a sunny-day theme in the classroom.
A circle with rays
The sun is the first thing most children add to a drawing that is not a person or a house, and it is almost always in the top corner with lines coming out of it. That is a convention children arrive at without being taught, and this page gives it back to them as something to fill rather than invent.
There are only two regions — sky and sun — which makes this genuinely suitable for a two-year-old who has not finished a page before. The rays are part of the sun rather than separate, so there is nothing small to stop at.
Day and night
This page pairs directly with the moon and stars, and colouring both is the easiest way into the idea that day and night are the same place at different times. Young children often think the sun goes away rather than that we turn away from it, and the accurate version is well within reach of a five-year-old with a torch and an orange.
Frequently asked questions
- What age is this page for?
- Two to four. Two large regions and thick outlines, and the subject needs no explaining at all.
- How do I explain day and night?
- With a torch and a ball. The Earth spins, so we face the sun for part of the day and away from it for the rest. Children grasp the demonstration long before they can grasp the description.