Smiling octopus with curled tentacles, bubbles, coral, shells, and a sandy sea floor.

Smiling Octopus with Bubbles

A cheerful octopus floats above a sandy mound, waving curled tentacles between shiny bubbles, coral sprigs, shells, and pebbles.

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

🎨 How to color it

Color the octopus coral pink, the big bubbles pale aqua, the sandy mound golden tan, and the coral sprigs seaweed green. Use chunky crayons or broad markers for the octopus’s big head and wide tentacles, then tap little dots of color onto the suction cups. Try making each bubble fade from blue at the edge to almost white in the middle, like it is holding a tiny bit of light.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 15 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

Vina Shares the Small Shine — Under the soft swish-swish of morning water, Vina carried a tiny glass bead in one careful tentacle. Read the full story →

Under the soft swish-swish of morning water, Vina carried a tiny glass bead in one careful tentacle. It looked plain as a pebble, but when sun slipped through it, a warm dot danced on the sand. Vina wanted every shell and coral twig in the sand garden to see that little shine.

She floated slowly, passing the striped clam, the round stones, and the bendy coral sprigs. The bead flashed on a bubble, then another. “Wait,” Vina whispered. The bubbles were not stealing the shine—they were passing it along.

Soon bright dots bobbed over the mound like quiet bells. Vina opened all her tentacles wide so the garden could catch them. If you peek at the bubbles now, can you find the tiny shine Vina shared under the soft swish-swish of morning water?