Two smiling children build a block tower on a rug with toy cars, shelves, curtains, and a teddy bear.

Siblings Building a Block Tower in the Playroom

A girl with braids and a laughing boy stack patterned blocks into a tall tower while toy cars wait on the wooden floor.

🎨 How to color it

Color the girl’s apple-print shirt coral, the boy’s striped shirt sky blue and white, the block tower in sunny yellow, mint green, and cherry red, and the toy car a bright teal. Use chunky crayons or broad markers for the big curtains, rug, and shirts, then switch to a sharper crayon tip for the tiny dots, stars, and diagonal block patterns. Make the tower extra silly by giving each block shape its own color family, like red arches, green cubes, and yellow triangles.

The story behind this coloring page

The Block That Paid Rent — Under the striped rug’s tickly edge, Piper kept a plain blue block with a penny sticker on the bottom. Read the full story →

Under the striped rug’s tickly edge, Piper kept a plain blue block with a penny sticker on the bottom. She wanted to slip it into the tallest tower before Milo noticed, because he had let her drive the red car all morning—beep, beep, bump—without asking for a turn. Sun warmed the curtains, and the wooden floor smelled like crayons and dust. Milo stacked arches. Piper stacked cubes. Neither said anything about the blue block.

When the tower reached Piper’s nose, she pushed the special block into a middle room. A folded scrap fluttered out. “Dear builders,” Milo read, trying not to giggle, “I am paying rent in cheese crumbs. Signed, Mr. Sock Mouse.” Behind the block sat one fuzzy sock, rolled into a tiny tenant. Piper laughed so hard she nearly tipped the roof triangle. Milo bowed to the sock and whispered, “Welcome home.” If you peek at the busy tower, maybe you can guess which block was secretly worth one whole thank-you.