Wildflower Field Coloring Page

This wildflower field coloring page puts you down low in the grass, with blooms towering over you. Two tall lupine spikes stand on the left and right like flower towers. A big red poppy opens in the center, and around it grow daisies, a drooping pink coneflower, black-eyed Susans and ruffled cosmos. A row of grass blades runs along the bottom edge.

Behind the big flowers, the meadow rolls away in bands. Each hill holds smaller and smaller blooms until they shrink to tiny rings. Far off, you can see a red barn, a silo, a round tree and a line of firs below a low mountain. A striped bee and two butterflies hover in the middle.

Who should try it

This is a detailed page for about age 8 and up, and teens and adults will like it best. Petals are the main job, and there are many of them. Allow around an hour. You can do just the big flowers on one day and return for the hills later.

Wildflower field coloring page color ideas

Give every flower type its own color and repeat it near the same spot. Real wild meadows grow in drifts, so a patch of one color looks more natural than confetti.

• Purple and pale lavender on the left lupine, blue and sky blue on the right
• Strong red for the poppy, with a green center
• Yellow petals and dark brown centers for the black-eyed Susans
• Pink on the coneflower, with an orange dome

The far bands are a nice surprise. Try solid yellow on one hill and pale pink on the next, so they read as sheets of distant flowers. Then keep the far hills and mountain pale.

Petal by petal

Shade from the center of each flower outward. Press firmly near the middle and lift as you reach the tip. Every petal then gets a soft glow, and the bloom looks cupped.

Color the flower heads before the stems and leaves. Bright yellow picks up dirty color from a used crayon, so keep your yellows clean and do them first.

For the lupines, alternate a dark and a light shade from one row to the next. The stacked petals are drawn in pairs, which makes this easy. Your eye will blend them into a spike.

Why the bee matters

That bee is doing an important job. According to the National Park Service, more than 75 percent of the flowering plants on Earth depend on pollinators. These helpers include bees, butterflies, birds and bats. Scientists say many of them are in trouble, and small changes in a backyard can help. The pollinators page explains what you can do at home.

Make it a project

Plant something after you finish coloring. A small pot of flowers on a windowsill or step is enough to draw a visitor. Keep a chart of what stops by for a week. You could also make a flower key with your class: cut out a small square of each flower from a second copy, glue them to a card and write the names beside them. Older kids can look up which ones grow wild in your state.

Do not worry about naming every plant correctly. A child who paints a daisy blue has not made a mistake, and a purple poppy can be the best thing on the sheet. The bee is the one part worth keeping true to life, with yellow and dark bands. Its wings can stay white. Those little rings on the far hills take one dab of color each, so they go fast.

Flowers to color next

For one giant bloom, try the sunflower coloring page. The bee and flower coloring page gets close to that busy worker, and the spring meadow coloring page has more open fields.

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