Smiling duckling swimming in a pond with lily pads, cattails, reeds, and round ripples

Happy Duckling Splashing by Lily Pads

A cheerful duckling grins in the pond, paddling between two lily pads while tall cattails sway along the bank.

🎨 How to color it

Color the duckling sunny yellow, the lily pads bright green, the cattails cocoa brown, and the pond water sky blue. Use chunky crayons to fill the duckling’s big body and the wide lily pads first; staying inside the lines is optional for little hands. Add silly blue circles around the duckling’s ripples, like the pond is giggling too.

The story behind this coloring page

Dobby’s Secret Splash Hat — Every day, Dobby patted mud into a splash hat. Plop, flop, splat! Read the full story →

Every day, Dobby patted mud into a splash hat. Plop, flop, splat! It always slid down his beak.

Until one day, his hat bumped a lily pad and went wobble-wobble. Because of that, Dobby peeked underneath. Because of THAT, he found a shiny snail shell cup hiding there. “Mine to make!” quacked Dobby.

He scooped, patted, and stuck reeds on top. Finally, his hat stayed up. Dobby paddled in proud circles, plop, flop, splat — can you spot where his secret cup hid?