Cartoon school bus driver waving as three children board a bus with a stop sign and trees

School Bus Driver Welcomes Backpack Kids

A smiling bus driver waves from the open door while three backpacked children line up beside the big stop sign.

🎨 How to color it

Color the school bus sunshine yellow, the driver’s uniform sky blue, the stop sign bright red, and the children’s backpacks in grape purple, teal, and orange. Use chunky crayons or markers for the bus’s big side panels, then switch to a sharper crayon tip for the wheel spokes and the bold SCHOOL BUS letters. Add a silly secret pattern—tiny stars or dots—inside each backpack so the kids look ready for a mischievous morning ride.

The story behind this coloring page

Benny’s Sneaky Seat Game — Before the first backpack bounced up the bus steps, Benny tapped the steering wheel: tap-tap, toot. Read the full story →

Before the first backpack bounced up the bus steps, Benny tapped the steering wheel: tap-tap, toot. He had invented a game called Sneaky Seat, where each rider guessed why one seat was “the best seat” for the day. The front seat smelled faintly of pencil shavings because Benny had tucked a new eraser there. The middle seat had a paper sun peeking from the crack. “No peeking with your elbows!” Benny called, grinning.

The children giggled and guessed wildly: dragon seat, moon seat, pickle seat. Then a squirrel popped onto the fence with a bus ticket-shaped leaf in its paws. Benny winked; the squirrel had been his secret helper, dropping leaf clues where nobody saw. By the time the bus rumbled off, every child had found a tiny surprise, and Benny had found three quiet smiles in his mirror. Can you spot the open bus door where the Sneaky Seat game began with tap-tap, toot?