A smiling triceratops with its front feet on a cracked, spotted eggshell.

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Triceratops Hatching

A smiling cartoon triceratops rests its front feet on the jagged edge of a spotted eggshell. Its large frill and the round shell markings leave broad spaces to color.

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Separate shell from its spots

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Cartoon triceratops with purple frill in a blue egg with yellow patches. — A digital color suggestion, not a photograph of a printed result. Open the original line drawing to print and try your own colors.

1. Blue shell
2. Yellow patches
3. Purple frill

Color the outer eggshell blue around its patches.
Color all oval shell patches yellow.
Color the broad frill behind the face pale purple; outer bumps, horns, face and the rest stay white.

Yellow patches remain separate from the blue shell. Find the jagged edge and explain which parts sit in front of it.

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