Smiling dinosaur chef stirs a bowl beside a giant cookie, pots, jars, utensils, and a kitchen clock.

Dinosaur Chef Stirring Batter in a Busy Kitchen

A grinning dinosaur in a tall chef hat stirs drippy batter while a giant cookie cools beside shelves of jars and pans.

🎨 How to color it

Give the dinosaur a bright leaf green body, the chef hat crisp white, the giant cookie golden brown, and the curtain a cheerful red. Use chunky crayons or broad markers for the big dinosaur face, bowl, and cookie, and do not worry if little hands color over the tiny hanging utensils. For a funny kitchen twist, make every cookie chunk a different color, like rainbow “mystery morsels.”

The story behind this coloring page

Bixby’s Sneaky Batter Game — Before breakfast, Bixby stirred batter in the warm bakery kitchen and invented a game: every plop from his spoon meant someone would get a secret treat. Plop for the pan. Read the full story →

Before breakfast, Bixby stirred batter in the warm bakery kitchen and invented a game: every plop from his spoon meant someone would get a secret treat. Plop for the pan. Plop for the flour sack. Plop-plop for the sleepy clock that ticked like a tiny hiccup.

He made a cookie as big as a wagon wheel and hid little batter dots where the whisk beetles would find them. Then the twist came: the steam puffs were playing too. Puff meant “thank you.” Puff-puff meant “more crumbs, please!”

Bixby snorted a giggle and slid the biggest crumb under the cooling rack, where nobody could see him share it. Next time you spot his spoon, can you guess which plop was for the steam?