Smiling duck walking past a barn gate, wooden fence, puddle, daisies, grass, and clouds.

Smiling Duck by the Barn Gate

A cheerful duck waddles through a wide puddle beside the barn gate, with daisies peeking up along the fence.

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

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🎨 How to color it

Color the duck butter yellow with an orange bill and feet, make the barn door barn red, and give the fence a warm tan with white daisies. Use chunky crayons or broad marker strokes for the duck’s big body and the open puddle, saving a sharper crayon tip for the fence rails and flower petals. Try making the puddle pale blue near the duck’s feet and almost white at the edges, like it is shining after rain.

The story behind this coloring page

Fenn and the Gate Whisper — Behind the red barn, Fenn heard a tiny ting-ting-ting, like a spoon tapping a teacup. He left his warm straw nest and waddled toward the gate, because secrets never wait politely. Read the full story →

Behind the red barn, Fenn heard a tiny ting-ting-ting, like a spoon tapping a teacup. He left his warm straw nest and waddled toward the gate, because secrets never wait politely. The puddle was cold on his webbed feet—splish, shiver, splish—but the sound came again from the fence flowers. “Who’s there?” Fenn whispered, though he hoped the answer would be wonderfully strange.

A cricket popped out from behind a daisy stem, rubbing one leg like a fiddle bow. “Not so loud,” she chirped. “I’m tuning the gate for moonrise.” Fenn had never heard of a gate needing music, so he stood very still while the cricket played the little latch-song. Ting-ting-ting! The barn door hummed back. Fenn carried the song home under his beak, and if you spot him by the puddle, maybe he is still keeping that tiny ting-ting-ting.