Rabbit digging at a burrow entrance beneath twisted tree roots, ferns, leaves, acorns, and pebbles.

Rabbit Digging Under Twisted Forest Roots

A alert rabbit pauses mid-dig at a round burrow, surrounded by tangled roots, ferns, acorns, stones, and fresh soil.

🎨 How to color it

Color the rabbit warm honey-brown, the twisted roots deep walnut, the ferns bright forest green, and the fresh dirt mound soft ocher. Use sharp colored pencils for the tiny pebbles, acorns, leaf veins, and fur strokes, then switch to broader strokes inside the burrow’s dark curve. For a mischievous touch, make one acorn cap purple and hide a few blue-gray “game stones” among the soil bumps.

The story behind this coloring page

Vesper’s Underroot Dare — Under the old beeches, where roots curled like sleeping tails, Vesper scraped a little runway of dirt and named his new game Yell-and-Guess. Read the full story →

Under the old beeches, where roots curled like sleeping tails, Vesper scraped a little runway of dirt and named his new game Yell-and-Guess. He tapped three pebbles by the tunnel mouth, sniffed the mushroomy air, and whispered, “If I shout, the burrow shouts back.” His whiskers prickled. Shouting into a dark hole felt much bigger than shouting at beetles.

He took one hop forward. “BOMP!” he called, not very loudly. The tunnel answered, “Bomp-bomp-bomp,” wobbly and deep. Vesper snorted. He tried, “Pickle paws!” The answer came back, “ickle-aws-aws,” and he laughed so hard a fern shook.

Then a new voice said, “Try ‘mud muffin.’ It bounces best.” Vesper froze with one paw in the crumbly soil. From the root above, a speckled thrush blinked upside down through a knothole. She had been feeding the tunnel words all morning. Vesper puffed his chest, called “MUD MUFFIN!” and the burrow boomed it back grandly; if you follow the dirt pile with your eyes, can you hear the giggle under the roots?