SWAMP PARASAUROLOPHUS #9

🦕 Parasaurolophus 🦖 Realistic 🕰️ Triassic 🦕 Herbivore 🦕

This printable coloring page features a cheerful dino Parasaurolophus standing in shallow water dotted with lily pads and cattails. Its long crest curves back from its head, and one front foot lifts slightly as though the animal were mid-step across the marsh. Two coconut-laden palm trees frame the scene on either side, backed by ferns and scattered rocks along the shore. Further back, a volcano releases a plume of smoke beneath a sky of rounded clouds. The dino's body offers wide, smooth areas broken up by oval spots of different sizes, simple enough for a first attempt at coloring. The palm fronds, by contrast, are built from many thin parallel lines that call for a steadier hand, much like the rippling circles drawn in the water around its legs. This page suits younger children on the open body shapes and older ones drawn to the leafy detail, for a session running from thirty minutes to an hour. Start with the large body and marsh areas before tackling the fiddly palm fronds and volcanic smoke. For this coloring page dense with foliage, print it on heavier 200gsm A4 paper so markers won't bleed through.