16 Dragonfly Coloring Pages
Dragonflies were flying long before dinosaurs. Ancient relatives with wingspans over two feet lived about 300 million years ago. Today's dragonflies are expert fliers that can hover, fly backward and catch mosquitoes in midair, and their huge eyes give them nearly all-around vision. They start life underwater as nymphs before climbing up a plant stem to emerge with wings. This collection shows dragonflies around ponds and wetlands. A dragonfly perches on a cattail and the tip of another, rests on a reed and lands on a lily bud. Pairs share a lily pad and a pond, and two dragonflies have heart-shaped wings. Two cute dragonfly pages suit the youngest kids. Dragonflies have four clear wings with fine veins, so light blue or silver works well, while bodies can be bright blue, green, red or gold. Kids can try metallic pens for shimmer. Cattails, lily pads and blue water make a natural home. These pages fit summer and pond studies.
Wing veins, cattails and curled tails
Cute Dragonfly Character is the easy page, with a round face, wide wings and simple vein lines for young children. The other three are medium. Cute Dragonfly adds fine wing veins and slim legs, Dragonfly on Reed brings crisscrossing reed leaves and a cattail, and Flying Dragonfly has the largest wings of the set, each divided into many small cells between the veins.
Shimmering blues, greens and reds
Real dragonflies shine in blue, green, red and orange, so any bright color works for the body. Wings look delicate with light tints of blue, lavender or yellow, and tinting each wing cell a slightly different shade creates a shimmering effect on Flying Dragonfly. Brown cattails and green leaves suit Dragonfly on Reed, and these pages fit a pond life lesson or summer bug hunt.
