For kids · ages 5–12
Sunflower colouring sheets
Four free colouring sheets to print. The flowers are really true to life: a round middle full of seeds, yellow petals around it, leaves and a sturdy stem. Grab your pencils!
Quick start: click the button below, choose "scale" or "fit to page", and print on A4. Then colour away — yellow for the petals, brown for the middle, and green for the stem and leaves.
Below are four colouring sheets. They get a little harder each time: from a simple flower for the little ones to a real sunflower with lots of seeds in the middle. Want to know why a sunflower looks the way it does? Then have a look at the anatomy of the flower, or try a worksheet afterwards.
1. Simple sunflower
A sweet, round flower with thick petals. Handy for the very littlest hands.
2. Sunflower with seeds
Now you can see the seeds in the middle too. Count them while you colour!
3. Sunflower in the field
A real sunflower on a long stem with big leaves, just like in the garden.
4. Two sunflowers
The hardest one: two flowers side by side with lots of petals. Take your time with this one.
How do you print a colouring sheet?
- Click the "Print this page" button at the top, or press Ctrl + P (on a Mac: Cmd + P).
- Choose A4 for the paper size and turn on "fit to page".
- Only want one colouring sheet? Then in the print window, under "pages", choose the number of the page it is on.
- Just use plain white printer paper. Thicker paper (160 gsm) is nicer if you colour with felt-tips, because then the ink won't bleed through.
Which colours do you use?
The petals (the "straps" around the edge) are yellow to orange. The round middle, where the seeds are, is dark brown. The stem and the leaves are green. But of course you can do it completely differently — purple sunflowers are allowed too!
For teachers and parents
These colouring sheets are deliberately drawn to be botanically simple but correct: a disc of disc florets in the middle, ray florets (the "petals") around the rim, lobed leaves and a straight stem. That makes them a good fit for lessons about the structure of a flower. After colouring, let pupils name the parts with the "label the parts" worksheet, or look at the real structure together on the anatomy page. If you like, print on thick paper and laminate so you can reuse them with wipe-off pens.
Tip: let a young child colour just the middle first, and only then the petals. That keeps it manageable and the sheet is "finished" sooner, which is motivating.