Police officer helping two children read a map outside a station with a patrol car nearby

Officer Helps Two Kids With a Town Map

A smiling police officer points the way while two kids unfold a wiggly-lined map outside the station, with a patrol car waiting nearby.

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

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🎨 How to color it

Give the officer’s uniform a friendly navy blue, the patrol car a bright white with blue lights, the map a pale tan, and the potted plant fresh green. Use broad marker strokes on the building, car, and sky, then switch to a sharper crayon or pencil for the map’s tiny roads and the badge shapes. Try coloring one secret route on the map in sunny yellow so it looks like the path the children just discovered.

The story behind this coloring page

The Shortcut That Winked — Behind the station steps, Cleo kept one sneaker on the safe square of shade and tapped her folded map. Read the full story →

Behind the station steps, Cleo kept one sneaker on the safe square of shade and tapped her folded map. She wanted the quiet pebble lane where the sparrows hopped, but the street beyond hummed with car tires and warm sidewalk smell. Her friend Mina whispered, “We only have to ask one person.” Cleo swallowed, unfolded the map, and stepped out.

A silver whistle gave a tiny tweet. Officer Bell was polishing the patrol car mirror, and a little brown moth sat right on his cap badge like it owned the place. “Secret?” he said softly. “This moth likes the quietest streets.” He traced one wiggly line, but Cleo had to trade her last mint to the moth before it fluttered away.

The pebble lane clicked under their shoes all the way back, click-click, brave-brave. Cleo brought home no mint, but she carried the softest shortcut in town; can you find the yellow route she dared to ask about?