Football Stadium Coloring Page

The lights are on and the sky is full of fireworks. This football stadium coloring page shows a big night game from up in the seats, with two decks of fans wrapping around the field, a glowing scoreboard, and three fans in the front row watching from behind. HOME leads GUEST 7 to 3 with 8:15 on the clock.

This is a detailed page. It suits kids of 9 and up, teens and adults who enjoy a long calm project. Set aside at least an hour. Hundreds of tiny fan circles fill the stands, and you can work on them a few rows at a time.

A tour of the stadium

Start at the top. Two bursts of fireworks open up over the roof, next to a moon and a scatter of stars. Tall light towers stand at each side, each with eight lamps. Below them comes the curved upper deck, split into sections by aisles, then a yellow band, then the lower deck.

The field sits in the middle, with a goal post at each end. Both teams wait along the sidelines, and the starters line up at the 50. In the front row, numbers 12 and 7 sit beside a small child who is waving a green pennant. Those three figures are what make you feel like you are really there.

Football stadium coloring page color ideas

Night scenes look striking with a deep sky. Fill it in with dark blue or purple, and leave the stars and lamps a bright yellow. Press hard, or use a dark marker, since a light sky will lose that nighttime feel.

Your favorite team can take over the stands. Give most of the fans its two colors and scatter a few others in between, just as a real home crowd looks. Green stripes on the field and bright end zones will finish the look.

• Fireworks: red and yellow, or green and orange
• Upper deck seats: light blue
• Lower deck seats: lavender
• Rail and walkway: soft gray

Ways to handle all those tiny seats

• Use sharp colored pencils and keep a sharpener close.
• Pick three or four colors and repeat them in a rough pattern.
• Fill one section at a time, then take a break.
• Darken the top of the sky last, so your hand does not rub the fresh color.

Fine tip markers also work here, as long as you lay a spare sheet under the page.

Plan a game night

Turn this into a family project over a few evenings. Everyone can take a section and color it their own way. Keep the page on the table during the big game, and add a few fans every time someone scores. By the final whistle, the stands will be full.

Teachers can use it for simple estimation. How many fans sit in one section? Multiply that by the number of sections to guess the crowd. Then count one row and see how close you came.

An old word for a new building

The word stadium comes from the Greek stadion, a measure of length equal to 600 human feet. At the ancient games at Olympia, the main race ran one stadion. The word then moved from the race to the place where people watched it. Tiered seats help every fan see over the person in front, and the idea has lasted for a very long time. Football under bright lights is newer, with early tests dating back to 1878.

One more idea: cut a small paper flag and tape it to the pennant in the front row. The flat page suddenly has a little life.

Other views of the game

See the same kind of field from straight behind the end zone with the football field coloring page. For a closer look at the people in the seats, the football cheerleader coloring page has rows of big, friendly faces.

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