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Hedgehog Chestnut Collecting Coloring Page Color Example

Color example for the Hedgehog Chestnut Collecting coloring page. The color reference for Hedgehog Chestnut Collecting. 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: 25–40 min
Difficulty: Medium
Areas to color: about 160

Coloring order

Color the hedgehog's spiky back in two browns, following the direction of the spines, and give the face and belly a soft cream.
Use deep brown for the bucket, the chestnuts and the shiny nuts in the open husks, and light green and yellow for the prickly husks.
Last, do the tree trunk and stump on the right, the red spotted mushrooms, the brown acorns and the oak leaves.

Questions to talk about

Why do you think chestnut husks have sharp spines?
Where will the hedgehog store the chestnuts it gathered?
Have you ever seen acorns or nuts in a park or forest?

Take it further

Draw each pinecone, acorn or leaf you meet on a walk onto a card to make autumn observation cards. Just look at what you find; do not taste it.

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 Hedgehog Chestnut Collecting coloring page. The color reference for Hedgehog Chestnut Collecting. Use it to plan your colors, then print the matching line art.

A reference showing the colors of the scene. 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.