Smiling baby elephant flying a diamond kite with bow tails under curly clouds

Happy Elephant Flying a Bow-Tailed Kite

A cheerful baby elephant holds a kite string in its trunk while bow ties flutter behind the diamond kite above grassy hills.

Free to print for personal and classroom use. This coloring page is part of the Elephant collection, made for ages 5–7 and drawn in a Bold & Easy style.

🎨 How to color it

Color the baby elephant soft gray, the diamond kite sunny yellow and sky blue, the bow tails cherry red, and the curly clouds pale lavender. Use chunky crayons or markers for the elephant’s big open body and kite panels, then let your child trace the long string in one slow swoop. Add a tiny rainbow stripe to each kite bow so the tail looks like it is giggling in the wind.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 20 zones and 7 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

Why Kite Tails Wear Bows — On Breezy Knoll, a little elephant named Quilla tucked her best ribbon ring onto her trunk and pulled her kite string. Read the full story →

On Breezy Knoll, a little elephant named Quilla tucked her best ribbon ring onto her trunk and pulled her kite string. The ring was only a round bit of wood with three old ribbons, but shh—it was where she kept birthday songs, mango smells, and every happy stomp she had saved. Up went the kite with a whish-whish, higher than the curly clouds. Quilla wanted her joy to reach the far grass nests, but the plain tail only wiggled to itself.

Then the wind snatched the ribbon ring. “Wait, that’s mine!” Quilla trumpeted, laughing and puffing dust. The ring spun up the string, popped open, and tied its ribbons into neat little bows along the tail. Suddenly the kite did not just fly—it waved hello to beetles, birds, and every friend below. Ever since, kite tails wear bows when they have joy too big to keep, and if you spot Quilla’s kite, you may hear a secret whish-whish from Breezy Knoll.