Cartoon caterpillar smiling beside a bitten apple, curled leaf, grasses, and hanging leaves.

Smiling Caterpillar Beside a Bitten Apple

A cheerful caterpillar marches past a curled leaf toward a bitten apple, with tall grass and dangling leaves around the path.

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

🎨 How to color it

Color the caterpillar spring green, the bitten apple bright red, the curled leaf golden yellow, and the tall grass fresh lime. Use chunky crayons or washable markers for the caterpillar’s big round body sections, and don’t worry if little hands color over a few legs. Try making each body bump a slightly different green so the caterpillar looks like it is wiggling through the grass.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 64 zones and 7 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

Nico’s Apple Drum — Every day, Nico tapped a curled leaf—pat-pat, pat-pat—to start the orchard band. Beetles clicked, grasshoppers scraped, and the grass smelled sharp and sunny. Read the full story →

Every day, Nico tapped a curled leaf—pat-pat, pat-pat—to start the orchard band. Beetles clicked, grasshoppers scraped, and the grass smelled sharp and sunny. But one day, the leaf only made a sad flop. A big wind had filled it with mud.

Because of that, Nico hurried down the path to find a new drum. Because of that, he bumped a bitten apple and heard, thump-a-rum! Inside the bite hole sat three shiny apple seeds, rattling like tiny bells. “Everybody, listen!” Nico called. He rolled the apple with all his feet, and the orchard burst into music too big to keep quiet. If you spot that apple, can you imagine the seeds going thump-a-rum again?