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.

Free to print for personal and classroom use. This coloring page is part of the Bird collection, made for ages 2–4 and drawn in a Bold & Easy style.

🎨 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.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 27 zones and 6 colors, sized for kids. Tiny unnumbered slivers borrow the color of their neighbors, and the little model above shows the finished page whenever you want to check your work. More grids like this live in our color by number gallery.

Prefer classic line art? Open this drawing as a regular coloring page.

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?