Cartoon velociraptor watching two hatchlings in a twig nest with spotted eggs, jungle plants, and a volcano

Velociraptor Mom Beside a Hatching Nest

A smiling velociraptor stands guard as two hatchlings pop from cracked eggs in a leafy nest below a distant volcano.

🎨 How to color it

Color the big velociraptor moss green with teal back scales, make the spotted eggs cream with coral dots, and shade the ferny jungle leaves in bright lime and deep emerald. Use sharp colored pencils for the tiny egg cracks, leaf veins, and pebble shapes, then switch to broader strokes on the dinosaur’s belly and the open sky. Try a pale lavender shadow inside each broken shell so the two hatchlings look newly popped into the morning light.

The story behind this coloring page

Niko Finds the Nest-Song — Under the damp leaves behind the nursery thicket, Niko sniffed for a moonfruit, the sweet kind that smelled like honey and rain. Read the full story →

Under the damp leaves behind the nursery thicket, Niko sniffed for a moonfruit, the sweet kind that smelled like honey and rain. His two new siblings chirped from the nest below, hungry already, and the grown-ups were busy counting eggshell pieces. Niko stepped past the safe fern wall for the first time. Every grass blade brushed his knees like a warning. At the black-stone slope, he found one moonfruit glowing under a root, but a thorn caught his tail feather and kept it.

“Ouch—fair trade,” he whispered, leaving the feather behind. On the way back, a hollow tapping came from the nest. Not from the hatchlings. From the smallest empty shell, the one nobody had checked.

Niko nudged it open with one claw. Inside sat a curled whistle pod, smooth as river glass. When he blew across it, three soft notes floated out, and both babies stopped fussing to listen. He brought back no moonfruit, but he brought the first nest-song, and if you spot the cracked shells, you might guess which one kept the secret.