Four fruit ice pops with citrus, watermelon, berries, kiwi, and coconut by a sunset swimming pool.

Fruit Ice Pops by the Sunset Pool

Four tall ice pops line up by a pool at sunset, each topped with sliced fruit and held on a wooden stick.

🎨 How to color it

Color the citrus pop lemon yellow and orange, the watermelon pop pink with green rinds, the berry-kiwi pop red and lime, and the coconut-grape pop creamy white with purple grapes. Use chunky crayons or markers for the big pop shapes, then let a grown-up help with the tiny fruit seeds and pool tiles if you want. Try making the sunset rays peach, gold, and pale pink so the cool blue pool feels extra calm behind the pops.

The story behind this coloring page

Why Pops Wait for Sunset — All afternoon, Solvi watched the pool shimmer and wished to make it cool before the little swimmers came back. Read the full story →

All afternoon, Solvi watched the pool shimmer and wished to make it cool before the little swimmers came back. Her wooden stick felt warm, and the tiles smelled like sun-baked stone.

A thin sunbeam slipped down the pool ladder and whispered, “Not yet.” Solvi frowned, but she waited with the citrus pop, the watermelon pop, the berry pop, and the coconut pop while the water made soft lap-lap sounds.

At last, the sun touched the wall. The four pops leaned their fruity shadows across the water, stripe by stripe, until the pool sighed cool and blue. Ever since, ice pops wait in a row for sunset; can you spot the sunbeam that told Solvi, “Not yet”?