Smiling bow-tie duck holding a heart balloon with hearts, stars, flowers, clouds, and a blank banner.

Bow-Tie Duck With a Heart Balloon

A cheerful duck in a striped bow tie holds a gridded heart balloon while smiling flowers, stars, hearts, clouds, and confetti surround it.

Free to print for personal and classroom use. This coloring page is part of the Duck collection, made for ages 5–7 and drawn in a Preppy style. A good pick for Valentine's Day.

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🎨 How to color it

Color the duck butter yellow, the striped bow tie navy and pink, the heart balloon cherry red with lavender grid squares, and the smiling flowers sunny orange. Use chunky crayons or broad markers for the duck’s round belly and balloon, then switch to a sharper crayon tip for the tiny hearts and stars. Try writing a tiny message on the blank banner and make the confetti pieces alternate mint green and coral.

The story behind this coloring page

Willa’s Secret Cheer Dash — Under the cloud parade arch, Willa tied her bow and invented the Zip-Zip Cheer Dash. Read the full story →

Under the cloud parade arch, Willa tied her bow and invented the Zip-Zip Cheer Dash. The game was simple: run from banner to banner before the flower floats rolled by, and tuck a happy note wherever no one was looking. Her heart balloon bobbed squeak-squeak in the warm wind.

She slipped one note under a star stool, one behind a cloud cart, and one beside a sleepy daisy drum. “Zip, zip, shh!” Willa whispered, giggling as confetti brushed her cheeks like paper feathers.

Then the parade began—and every float carried her notes high on little strings. The star keeper, cloud pusher, and daisy drummer had found them and sent them back into the sky. Willa waved so hard her balloon danced. Next time you spot the big heart balloon, can you guess which cheer was meant for nobody to see?