Helicopter
Preschool · 3–5A whirring helicopter with a spinning rotor on top. Color the body, the window, and the rotor. It is a fun way to talk about flying machines and how they lift straight up. Print it on A4 or US Letter, or color it online with tap-to-fill.
The machine with spinning blades
A helicopter is the vehicle children find most puzzling, and rightly — it has no wings and it can stop in mid-air. The rotor on top is drawn as a long thin region, which makes it the most demanding part of the page to colour neatly and the part most worth pointing at.
The body and window are large and easy by comparison, so the page works for a wide age range: a three-year-old can do the body and leave the rotor alone.
What helicopters are for
Because it can hover and land almost anywhere, a helicopter does jobs a plane cannot — air ambulances, mountain rescue, lifting things onto roofs, reporting on traffic. Children who have seen one overhead usually want to know why it was there, and the answer is almost always one of those.
Frequently asked questions
- How does a helicopter stay still in the air?
- The spinning blades act like wings that move instead of the whole aircraft, so it can push air down without going anywhere. That is why it can hover and land in places a plane never could.
- What age is this page for?
- Three to six. The body is easy; the narrow rotor is the part that asks for control, and it can simply be left for younger children.