Cartoon number 4 farmer beside four carrots labeled 1 to 4, with barn, fence, hills, clouds, and sun.

Farmer Number 4 Counts Carrots

A smiling number 4 in a straw hat stands by four leafy carrots, each marked 1 through 4 near the barn fence.

🎨 How to color it

Give the number 4 a sunny yellow body, the straw hat a tan brim, the bandana a bright red, and the four carrots orange with leafy green tops. Use chunky crayons for the big number and barn, then help trace the small circles around 1, 2, 3, and 4 with a sharper point. Try making the four carrot tops different greens so each counted carrot feels like it grew in its own secret spot.

The story behind this coloring page

Quill’s Four-Root Riddle — Under the barn’s quiet roof, Quill pressed four mud buttons onto his scarf and invented a game called Root Riddle. Read the full story →

Under the barn’s quiet roof, Quill pressed four mud buttons onto his scarf and invented a game called Root Riddle. He wanted four carrot markers before the moon cloud covered the sun, so he stepped away from his warm fence post and into the crunchy rows.

One marker hid under a leaf. Two sat by a pebble. Three stuck to Quill’s boot with a wet plop. But the fourth was missing, and the dirt smelled cold and rain-ready. Quill gave his best shiny button to a crow who croaked, “Try the wiggly row.”

There, Quill found not a marker, but a tiny carrot tag he could shape himself from bent straw. He tied it on, stood tall, and counted his handmade game: one, two, three, four. Next time you see the carrots, can you spot the secret straw tag Quill made under the barn’s quiet roof?