Cute sticker-style panda sitting with bamboo, big round ears, paw pads, grass, and leafy sprouts.

Smiling Panda Holding Bamboo

A cheerful panda sits with wide shiny eyes, round paw pads forward, and a leafy bamboo stem hugged in one paw.

🎨 How to color it

Color the panda’s eye patches and ears charcoal black, the bamboo stem fresh green, and the small grass tufts lemon-lime. Use chunky crayons or markers for the big belly, ears, and paw pads, and don’t worry if little hands go past the thick sticker lines. Try making every bamboo leaf a different green so the panda looks like it found a tiny forest bouquet.

The story behind this coloring page

Arlo’s First Quiet Count — Under the warm grass smell, Arlo tapped his toes and made a game called Quiet Count. He wanted to count one bamboo leaf out loud without hiding his voice. Read the full story →

Under the warm grass smell, Arlo tapped his toes and made a game called Quiet Count. He wanted to count one bamboo leaf out loud without hiding his voice. “One,” he whispered, and his round paws buzzed like sleepy bees.

The bamboo in his paw went swish. Arlo counted again, a little stronger. “One… two.” Then the surprise came: a tiny cricket under the leaf clicked, “Three!” Arlo blinked. The game was not only his.

So Arlo counted leaves, and the cricket counted clicks, soft and brave together. Next time you see his bamboo sprig, can you hear the quiet count begin again?