Intricate hummingbird sipping from a hibiscus flower amid curling vines and leaves

Hummingbird Among Curling Hibiscus Vines

A tiny hummingbird hovers beak-first at a large hibiscus, surrounded by curling tendrils, veined leaves, buds, and open blossoms.

Free to print for personal and classroom use. This coloring page is part of the Bird collection, made for teens and adults, drawn in a Floral style.

🎨 How to color it

Layer emerald and teal on the hummingbird’s scalloped feathers, coral pink on the hibiscus petals, and deep olive on the many veined leaves. Use sharp pencils and color the feather scales, petal ribs, and curling tendrils from the outside edges inward to keep the fine lines crisp. Try a warm-to-cool shift: peach near each flower center, fading to rose at the petal tips, with one hidden spiral vine in metallic gold.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 598 zones and 9 colors, sized for adults. 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 Hibiscus Vines Curl — Before hibiscus vines curled, they climbed in straight, serious lines, and Selvi followed one through the glasshouse heat, hunting the first unsipped nectar. Read the full story →

Before hibiscus vines curled, they climbed in straight, serious lines, and Selvi followed one through the glasshouse heat, hunting the first unsipped nectar. Then came a sound like wet silk: a tiny snail-scribe, lost on the stem, asked her to read the flower’s secret. Selvi’s beak touched the bloom, and curiosity ran through her so quickly that the vine bent after her question, then another, then another. The snail wrote it down in silver slime; ever since, hibiscus vines curl because they are still asking where Selvi found that first unsipped nectar.