Cute caterpillar smiling on an apple tree branch with leaves and a large apple

Smiling Caterpillar on an Apple Branch

A cheerful caterpillar arches along an apple branch, smiling beside two veined leaves and a round hanging apple.

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

🎨 How to color it

Color the caterpillar butter yellow, the apple bright red, the leaves fresh green, and the branch warm brown. For little hands, use chunky crayons to fill the big apple first, then dab each caterpillar bump one by one. Try making every shiny oval on the caterpillar a tiny white sparkle, like it just wiggled through morning dew.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 16 zones and 4 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

Pippo’s Wiggle-Giggle Game — On a sunny orchard twig, Pippo made a new game: wiggle up, wiggle down, then say, “Bloop!” His soft feet tapped the bark—ticka, ticka, ticka—and the leaf smelled green and snappy. Read the full story →

On a sunny orchard twig, Pippo made a new game: wiggle up, wiggle down, then say, “Bloop!” His soft feet tapped the bark—ticka, ticka, ticka—and the leaf smelled green and snappy.

He bent like a rainbow. He bounced like a noodle. “Bloop!” he squeaked again, and his giggle grew too big for one caterpillar.

Then the round apple below gave a tiny wobble. Bonk-bonk! It was playing, too. Pippo laughed so hard the leaf shivered; next time you see that apple, can you find the bloop?