Johnny Appleseed

Meet Johnny Appleseed, the nickname of John Chapman, through imagined storybook scenes of planting seeds, caring for saplings, sharing apples and walking through an orchard. Choose the single-figure page for larger open areas, or a garden scene with baskets, blossoms and tree rows for smaller details. Download and print a page to color on paper.

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Johnny Appleseed holds an apple beside a boy filling a basket at a wooden table.

Apple Baskets with Johnny Appleseed

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Johnny Appleseed sits on a bench and offers a girl an apple while a boy holds another.

Johnny Appleseed Shares Apples

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Johnny Appleseed looks up at a bird in a nest among apple branches.

Johnny Appleseed Watches a Nest

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Johnny Appleseed points to apple blossoms beside a girl holding a basket, with bees nearby.

Apple Blossoms with Johnny Appleseed

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Johnny Appleseed holds a seed over a pot while a girl scoops soil into another at a potting bench.

Planting in Pots with Johnny Appleseed

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Johnny Appleseed holds a basket of leaves while a girl lays leaves in a ring around a bare tree.

A Ring of Leaves with Johnny Appleseed

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Johnny Appleseed tends young apple trees in a fenced nursery.

Johnny Appleseed’s Tree Nursery

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Johnny Appleseed carries two saplings through an open wooden gate beside a squirrel on a post.

Through the Nursery Gate with Johnny Appleseed

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Johnny Appleseed shows an open picture book to two children sitting on a checked picnic blanket.

Story Time with Johnny Appleseed

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Johnny Appleseed kneels beside a young tree with gardening supplies.

Johnny Appleseed Plants a Tree

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Johnny Appleseed rests on a rock by a stream with a cloth bag on his lap and a wooden bridge behind him.

Johnny Appleseed Rests by the Stream

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Johnny Appleseed sows seeds in a wooden-framed bed beside rows of small plants.

Johnny Appleseed Sows a Row of Seeds

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Choose a single sapling or a busy garden scene

Look at the hands, plant and surrounding objects before choosing how much of the page to color.

Planting a sapling

One figure kneels beside a sapling, with a can and seed bag nearby. Choose this to focus on the leaves, soil and clothing.

Johnny Appleseed Plants a Tree →

Spreading leaves together

Two figures work among fallen leaves and garden tools. Choose it for a shared scene with more small shapes to sort.

A Ring of Leaves with Johnny Appleseed →

Start with the planting area

Print the original line drawing below. Match the numbered areas to the color key and steps, then compare your result with the example.

Try it on paper

Original coloring page: Johnny Appleseed Plants a Tree →

Johnny Appleseed planting illustration with green sapling leaves, brown soil and blue trousers; other areas remain white. — A digital color suggestion, not a photograph of a printed result. Open the original line drawing to print and try your own colors.

1. Green sapling leaves
2. Brown soil mound
3. Blue trousers

Color only the sapling leaves green, keeping their central veins visible.
Color the small soil mound around the sapling brown. Leave the trunk, hands and surrounding grass uncolored.
Use muted blue on the trousers and leave the sewn knee patch white. Keep the rest of the picture white for this first pass.

The sapling, hands and soil should remain separate; you can add the rest in a later session.

Use the picture as a story prompt

Ask what happens before and after this planting moment, then write a short caption. The scene is an imagined illustration, not a record of a specific historical event or a complete planting guide.

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