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Dragonfly Coloring Page Color Example — Dori
Color example for the Dragonfly coloring page. The color reference for Dori the Baby Dragonfly. Dori the baby dragonfly with shimmering stained-glass wings, perching gently on a cattail reed over a serene pond. Use it to plan your colors, then print the matching line art.
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Activity guide for this page
- Recommended age
- Ages 5–8
- Estimated time
- 20–30 min
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Areas to color
- about 100
Coloring order
- Color Dori's long, slim body teal, and alternate pale purple, sky blue and lime across the four clear wings, section by section.
- Use brown and green for the cattail head and stalk she is gripping, and make the round eyes clear and bold.
- Finish the pond-side grass blades, the little ripples and the lily pads at the bottom in blue and green.
Questions to talk about
- How many wings does Dori have? Let's count them.
- What is Dori looking at from her perch on the cattail?
- Have you seen an insect near water? How did it move?
Take it further
Cut cellophane into wing shapes, attach them to a paper body to make Dori, and hold her up to a window to see how the colors glow.
Age and time are rough guides for a child coloring alone with pencils or crayons; every child is different. The area count is an estimate counted from the line-art image.
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Color example for the Dragonfly coloring page. The color reference for Dori the Baby Dragonfly. Dori the baby dragonfly with shimmering stained-glass wings, perching gently on a cattail reed over a serene pond. Use it to plan your colors, then print the matching line art.
A reference showing the colors of the animal character. Follow it or choose your own. It sits on the left page of a spread.
Printing and coloring tips
- Print on A4 or Letter in portrait to keep the original proportions.
- Keep the finished version open beside you while you color.
- Use slightly heavier paper with water-based markers so the ink shows through less.
- Fill the large areas first and leave the small ones for later.
- The finished version is only a suggestion. Any colors you like will work.
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