Detailed flower bouquet with roses, daisies, lilies, leafy sprigs, and a large ribbon bow.

Bouquet of Roses, Daisies, Lilies, and a Bow

Roses, daisies, lilies, buds, and feathery leaves gather into a hand-tied bouquet finished with a wide looping bow.

🎨 How to color it

Color the roses soft coral, the daisies sunny yellow with brown centers, the lilies pale peach, and the ribbon a deep teal. Use sharp colored pencils for the narrow stems, tiny leaf sprigs, and layered rose petals, working from the outer edges toward the crowded center. Try making the ribbon slightly darker where it tucks behind the stems so the handmade bow looks folded and real.

The story behind this coloring page

Why Bouquets Wear Bows — Behind the meadow shed, where cut stems smelled green and sharp, Nora lined up roses, lilies, daisies, and ferny sprigs on her worktable. Read the full story →

Behind the meadow shed, where cut stems smelled green and sharp, Nora lined up roses, lilies, daisies, and ferny sprigs on her worktable. She wanted to carry the first spring bundle to the bell tower herself, but every time she lifted it, the flowers slid apart with a whispery shhh. Twine scratched the petals. Grass snapped. Even her best knot sagged like sleepy yarn.

Then a hollow reed rolled off the table and tapped her shoe. Inside was a strip of blue ribbon, tucked where nobody ever thought to look, with tiny silver words: Tie beauty gently, or it forgets its shape. Nora grinned like you do when your own hands suddenly know what to do. She wrapped the stems, crossed the loops, pulled once, and the bouquet stood proud.

By bell time, everyone asked who had made such a clever holder. Nora only touched the knot and smiled. Ever since, bouquets wear bows to remember the first gentle binding; next time you spot the looping ribbon below the flowers, keep the secret with Nora.