12 Giraffe Coloring Pages: Little Art Studio Free printable PDF · color online

Start at the easel

A giraffe with a paint palette works on a big flower while a stool and paint tin wait nearby. Another paints a garden flower with real blooms in pots beside the canvas. The two drawings share a flower subject, but the second adds a small garden to compare with the picture on the easel. Children can decide whether the painted petals should match the potted flowers or use completely imaginary colors. Paint the animal's spots first, then choose a color for the canvas so its artwork stands apart. For more petal shapes after this activity, see the flower coloring pages.

Try a different tool

The sketchbook giraffe sits with crayons and draws one flower on a page. A second giraffe uses a roller to cover a wall with stars and circles, while another draws a butterfly beside a box of crayons. A brush, a crayon and a roller can make different marks even before any color is added. Ask a child which tool they would choose for a large star and which for a butterfly wing. The open handprint picture is a good quick pick: the giraffe and flower occupy clear, broad spaces, and there is little background to plan.

Color the artist and the artwork

These sheets contain two pictures at once: the spotted giraffe and whatever it has made. The heart canvas leaves a large center shape; the pottery page adds stripes and waves around a rounded vase. One outdoor easel holds a smiling sun beneath a real sun and tree. Try giving the giraffe the same spot color across several pages, then let each artwork have its own palette. The outdoor tree, grass and sky ask for more color changes than the simple handprint. If a child wants another patterned animal to compare, the zebra coloring pages turn stripes into the main coloring decision.

Put on a tiny art show

A giraffe stands by a framed landscape on a curtained stage, ready to show what it painted. This is one of the longer choices because the curtains, picture frame, hills and giraffe each have separate areas. Print it beside the heart or star canvas and invite a child to name the artist's show. The selected set keeps one version of each major pose and tool; it does not need several near-identical flower-easel pages. When the coloring is done, a grown-up can help arrange two or three sheets on a wall and add a new drawing between them. The elephant pages offer another animal for the gallery.