Easy giraffe coloring page with a spotted giraffe standing beside a tall leafy tree, rocks, and grass.

Giraffe Beside a Tall Leafy Tree

A calm spotted giraffe stands nose-to-leaves beside a slim tree, with rounded rocks and tufts of grass at its feet.

🎨 How to color it

Color the giraffe golden yellow with cocoa-brown spots, make the tall tree’s leaves bright green, and shade the rounded rocks soft gray. The giraffe’s large spots and the simple oval leaves are perfect for chunky crayons or broad marker strokes inside the thick lines. Try making every other leaf a lighter green so the tree looks like it is whispering in the sun.

The story behind this coloring page

Yara’s Patient Spots — Behind the tallest whisper tree, Yara stretched for the first sweet leaf of morning. Read the full story →

Behind the tallest whisper tree, Yara stretched for the first sweet leaf of morning. The leaves smelled peppery and bright, but the tree kept lifting them just out of reach with a hush-hush-hush.

Now, don’t tell everyone this part: Yara did not stomp. She waited. A small gray rock near her hoof gave a tiny tick. Under it, where nobody ever looked, sat a beetle painting warm brown circles with muddy feet. “Hold still,” the beetle whispered.

Yara held still through the tickle, through the sun, through one more hush. Since that morning, giraffes have worn patient spots, and if you peek near the rocks, you may find where the first one began behind the tallest whisper tree.