Nature & Seasons

Explore weather, volcanoes and scenes from spring, summer, fall and winter. Choose a nature coloring page and download a free PDF to print.

Themes

Personalize for an occasion

Choose a small plant or a whole spring scene

Start with the central seedling for a focused nature study, or choose the blossom-filled orchard for a longer coloring session.

A small oak shoot rises from a split acorn beside its loose cap, with fallen acorns and lobed leaves on the woodland floor.

Follow a growing shoot

Three broad leaves rise from a split acorn. Color just this central plant first; the surrounding woodland can stay uncolored.

An Acorn Becomes an Oak Seedling →
Flowering apple branches arch above an open garden gate, with two perched birds and stepping stones leading to a little shed.

Explore a flowering orchard

Blossom branches frame an open gate, two birds and a winding stone path. Choose this when you want many smaller shapes and foreground-to-background detail.

Apple Blossom Orchard Gate →

Bring the young oak into focus

Print the original linked below. Match the numbers to the color key and steps; the example shows only the central seedling and its acorn colored.

Digital coloring example

Digital coloring example of an oak seedling with three green leaves and a green stem, a tan split acorn and a brown cap; the surrounding woodland remains 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 leaves and stem
  • 2. Tan split acorn
  • 3. Brown acorn cap
  1. Color all three leaves of the central seedling green, then follow the narrow stem down to the split acorn. Keep the black veins visible.
  2. Fill the two broad sections of the split acorn tan. Stop at the stem and the curved edge beside the cap.
  3. Color the patterned cap immediately to the right brown, including its lined inner surface and short stalk. Leave the other acorns, fallen leaves and woodland white.

You can follow the green stem from the tan acorn to all three leaves, and distinguish the brown cap beside it. The uncolored surroundings make this small plant stand out; the study is complete without filling the whole page.

Start a nature notebook

Use the printed seedling page, a pencil and a spare sheet to connect the picture with something you can observe outside.

  1. Write the date on the spare sheet and sketch one leaf shape you can see from a window or on a walk.
  2. Compare its edge with the rounded lobes on the seedling. Add one color word, then keep your sketch beside the finished coloring page.

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