Cute baby elephant smiling at a butterfly in a sunny savanna with trees, clouds, and grass.

Smiling Baby Elephant with a Butterfly

A cheerful baby elephant lifts its trunk while a patterned butterfly flutters beside tall grass under a bright savanna sun.

Free to print for personal and classroom use. This coloring page is part of the Cute Animal collection, made for ages 2–4 and drawn in a Bold & Easy style.

🎨 How to color it

Color the baby elephant soft gray, the butterfly sunny yellow and orange, the acacia trees leafy green with brown trunks, and the round sun golden yellow. For little hands, use chunky crayons on the elephant’s big ears and belly first, and don’t worry if the color wiggles past the lines. Add a playful twist by making the butterfly’s spots blue, like tiny sky dots that flew down to visit.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 29 zones and 5 colors, sized for kids. 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

Tilly Waits for Wiggles — In the warm grass, Tilly held her trunk up high. She wanted a tickle, so she stood still: swish, swish, hush. Read the full story →

In the warm grass, Tilly held her trunk up high. She wanted a tickle, so she stood still: swish, swish, hush.

A little breeze came. A cloud scooted by. Tilly did not wiggle. “I can wait,” she whispered.

Then a butterfly landed on her trunk—tap, tap! Not a tickle from the wind, but butterfly feet! Tilly giggled so hard her ears flapped like fans.

The butterfly twirled away, and Tilly held her trunk up high again. Can you spot the tiny tickle-maker beside the grass?