Sunflower in Bloom Coloring Page

About this coloring page

One large sunflower with sixteen petals arranged around a spiralled seed centre, a stem, two broad leaves and two clouds behind it. The areas repeat, which changes how a child experiences the page: they learn the filling motion once on the first petal and then repeat it the whole way around the flower. That builds confidence quickly and makes this a good second or third coloring page rather than a first one. The seed centre is drawn as the spiral packing real sunflowers use, every seed its own small circle, so it can be left white, filled dark brown, or dotted over with the crayon tool for a rougher look. Children who want a non-realistic flower should be left to it — a sunflower with sixteen differently colored petals is a perfectly good outcome and takes noticeably longer, which is usually the point. Printed at A4 the flower head comes out roughly the size of a real sunflower head, which is worth mentioning to a child before they start because it reliably gets their attention. Printed as a sunflower coloring sheet the petals stay wide enough for a chunky crayon to travel along without straying outside them.

Color suggestions

• Golden yellow petals
• Dark brown centre
• Green stem and leaves
• Or sixteen different petal colors

Did you know?

• Young sunflowers follow the sun across the sky each day, but once they mature they stop moving and stay facing east permanently, which warms them earlier and attracts more bees.
• The seeds in the centre grow in two interlocking spirals, and the number of spirals is almost always a pair of Fibonacci numbers, most often 34 one way and 55 the other.