Windy Day Coloring Page

Hold on to your hat. On this windy day coloring page, a gust has just flipped a girl's red umbrella inside out, and her long hair is flying straight out to the right. Her mouth is a little round O of surprise. Behind her, a boy has lost his hat, and it's sailing away high above the tree while he waves at it and laughs.

Everything in the picture is on the move. Curly wind lines blow across the sky, and pink petals tumble past. The arrow on the weather vane points the way, and the tree leans over as if it's tired. Only the small puppy sitting on the grass seems calm about it all.

Age and time

This is a medium page. Kids from 5 to 10 will have no trouble with the clothes and the grass, though the flowing hair and the umbrella ribs take some control. Plan on 25 minutes.

Windy day coloring page color ideas

Wind has no color, so the things around it do all the work. The girl's hair is the longest shape on the page, and each lock is drawn on its own. Color them in two shades, one a bit lighter, and swap back and forth. It'll look as if the strands are moving.

Try these ideas for the rest:

• Umbrella: bright red, with a darker color inside the cup
• Boy's hat: red with a yellow band
• Skirt: teal, with one darker fold
• House: cream walls and a red roof
• Petals: pink and pale pink, mixed

Leave the wind lines as they are, or trace them in pale blue. Kids love tracing the curls at the end with one slow turn of the pencil. A soft gray cloud would add a stormy feel, but the cloud in the corner looks happiest in white.

Tips to show motion

Let your strokes go the same way as the wind. Color the grass, the tree and the sky with marks that lean to the right. That small habit makes the whole page feel breezy, and most kids can do it with no trouble.

Start the hair at the head and pull the crayon out toward the tips. Lift as you go, so the color fades a bit at the ends.

The tree crown is one big shape. Make it more interesting with little loops in a darker green, placed mostly on the side the wind is hitting. Add a few more loose petals with a pink crayon if you want more action.

Where wind comes from

Wind is air on the move. It's caused by differences in air pressure, and those mostly come from differences in temperature. The vane on the roof in this picture is a real tool, too. Weather vanes pivot to show which way the wind is blowing. To measure how fast it's going, people use an anemometer, most often with spinning cups or a propeller. Airports use windsocks for a quick look at the direction. The Wind page explains it in more depth.

Windy day activities

Make a simple wind tester. Tape a strip of tissue paper to a pencil and hold it up outside. Limp means calm, floating means breezy, and straight out means windy. Your child can log the result each day for a week on the back of this sheet.

A pinwheel is another quick craft. Cut a square of paper, fold the corners to the middle and pin it to a pencil eraser. An adult should handle the pin.

For a story prompt, ask where the hat lands. Does a bird move in? Does it reach another town? Kids can draw the next scene in a small box on the back. A class can pass the page around and add one sentence each.

More breezy pages

Put that wind to good use on the kite coloring page. If the rain arrives next, the umbrella in the rain coloring page is a good match.

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