Fire Truck Coloring Page

About this coloring page

A fire truck with a ladder on top, a hose reel on the side and a flashing light. Everybody knows what color this is, which makes it the fastest page in the category to start and the easiest to finish. The ladder is drawn as a few thick rungs rather than a lattice, which is deliberate: a real ladder would be dozens of thin shapes and would turn a two-minute page into a chore. The cab windows are separated from the body so they can be left white, and leaving them is what makes the truck look like it has glass rather than paint. The light on top is the one small circle worth a bright color at the end. Worth mentioning while a child colors: fire engines are not red everywhere, and the reason is genuinely interesting. Printed at A4 the truck fills the width of the sheet. If a large area of red is going down with a marker, print on paper heavier than eighty gram or it will buckle. A fire truck coloring sheet is one children ask to repeat, so it is worth printing two at half size on a single page rather than one large one.

Color suggestions

• Classic red with a white stripe
• Yellow-green, which is safer
• Black tyres, silver ladder
• Leave the windows white

Did you know?

• Fire engines are not red everywhere for a reason. Studies found lime-yellow trucks are involved in significantly fewer accidents than red ones, because red is harder to pick out at dusk and in the dark.
• The flashing light is called a beacon and the pattern matters as much as the colour: alternating flashes are much easier for a driver to judge distance from than a steady light.