Penguin at the Beach Coloring Page

Somebody picked the wrong vacation. This penguin at the beach coloring page puts a round penguin in a straw hat right in the middle of a hot, sunny shore. To cool off, it has climbed into a big cooler packed with ice, and the side of the box says Keep Cold. Sweat drops fly off its head. It holds up an ice cream cone that is melting faster than it can eat it, while the grinning sun looks on from above.

Kids from about 4 to 10 will find this page easy and funny. The cooler is a big box with clear bands, and the penguin has wide open shapes. Most children will finish in 20 minutes or so.

Beach jokes to spot

Start at the bottom right. Instead of a sand castle, the penguin has built an igloo out of sand, with a neat row of blocks and a small door. A pail waits next to it. Now look far out at sea. A tiny iceberg with a flag is drifting along, just out of reach. It may be the saddest thing the penguin has ever seen.

On the left, a crab waves one claw beside a palm tree with two coconuts. Six snowflakes decorate the cooler, which adds one more cold detail to a very warm picture. Pink drips from the cone fall toward the sand.

Penguin at the beach coloring page color ideas

The penguin wants a dark back and a white front. Use dark blue if black feels too heavy. An orange beak will pop nicely against that dark head. Then let the beach get bright.

• Blue cooler with a white band for the words
• Golden yellow hat with a red ribbon
• Pink or mint ice cream on a tan cone
• Red crab on pale yellow sand

Make the sea two blues if you can. A deep shade near the top and a lighter one close to the sand gives the page some depth. The iceberg can stay white with a touch of pale blue.

Tips for hot and cold colors

This page is a good way to teach warm and cool colors. Sky, sea and cooler are cool. Sun, sand and hat are warm. Ask your child to sort the crayons into two piles before starting, then use each pile in its own part of the picture.

Color the dark parts of the penguin last. Black crayon loves to travel onto nearby white areas. With the snowflakes, leave the cooler panel white around them or use a light blue, since the small branches are hard to outline.

For the sand, press lightly with the side of a yellow or tan crayon. Then tap a brown marker in small dots to make it look grainy. The sweat drops can take a bit of pale blue so they do not vanish into the sky.

Plan a better trip

Ask your child where the penguin should go next. Write a postcard from the penguin to a friend back home. It might start with, "Dear Bob, the weather is terrible. It is warm and sunny." Kids usually love that kind of backward joke. On the other side, draw a stamp and a small picture of the iceberg.

You can run a small science test as well. Put one ice cube in the shade and one in the sun, and see which melts first. The ice cream in the picture already knows.

True facts about penguins

Here is a surprise for your little bird expert. Some real penguins do live in warm places. The Galápagos penguin is the only penguin found north of the equator, and it is the second smallest penguin species. So a beach trip is not as strange as it seems.

Penguins in better weather

For a penguin in the right weather, try the penguin coloring page. Kids who want more sand and waves will like the beach coloring page.

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