Bold daffodil with long leaves beside a decorated Easter egg in grass, with simple clouds.

Daffodil Beside a Patterned Easter Egg

A tall daffodil leans over a patterned Easter egg tucked in grass, while small clouds drift across the open sky.

🎨 How to color it

Color the daffodil petals butter yellow, the trumpet a warm orange, the long leaves bright green, and the Easter egg in sky blue, pink, and violet bands. Use chunky crayons or markers for the big petals and egg stripes, and do not worry if the color bumps over the thick black lines. Try making each circle on the egg a different candy color so it feels like a secret spring surprise.

The story behind this coloring page

Why Spring Eggs Wear Patterns — Under the tall daffodil, Vera carried her last blue chalk nub in both paws. Read the full story →

Under the tall daffodil, Vera carried her last blue chalk nub in both paws. It was hardly bigger than a bean, but it had colored the door of her nest, her brother’s birthday stone, and one tiny moon on her cup. Now a plain egg sat in the grass, cold and smooth. A sleepy chick inside tapped, tick-tick, and whispered, “I wish Mama could find me.”

Vera looked left, looked right, and saw nobody watching. She drew a wavy road around the shell, then dots like raindrops, then a zigzag as sharp as grass. The chalk smelled dusty and sweet on her paws. By sunrise, the mother bird found the bright egg at once, and every spring egg after that wore stripes, dots, and zigzags. Secretly, I think Vera’s blue nub started it all—can you spot the egg that remembers?