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Paper Airplane Wind Tunnel Coloring Page Color Example — Nari's Invention Lab No. 08

Color example for the Paper Airplane Wind Tunnel coloring page. Paper Airplane Wind Tunnel, a finished full-color illustration from Nari's Sparkling Invention Lab featuring the original characters Nari and Toto. The finished reference used to pick colors. It sits on the left page of a spread.

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Finished full-color illustration of Nari and Toto in the paper airplane wind tunnel scene

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Black-and-white coloring page of Nari and Toto in the paper airplane wind tunnel scene

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Activity guide for this page

Recommended age: Ages 6–10
Estimated time: 25–40 min
Difficulty: Medium
Areas to color: about 230

Coloring order

Begin with the box fan, the clear round tunnel and the paper airplane inside it. A deep blue fan and a very pale blue tube would look good.
Color Nari and Toto stretching out as if running, then give each paper airplane hanging from the string at the top its own color.
Last, color the pile of origami paper on the desk below, the scissors in the pencil cup and the corkboard, one at a time.

Questions to talk about

What shape should a paper airplane be to stay up inside the wind tunnel?
What do you think Nari shouted as the airplane met the wind?
When you last flew paper airplanes, what did the farthest one look like?

Take it further

Fold two differently shaped paper airplanes from origami paper and fly them with a grown-up in a wide space, like a paper airplane wind tunnel test. Talk about which one went farther.

Age and time are rough guides for a child coloring alone with pencils or crayons; every child is different. The area count is an estimate counted from the line-art image.

About this image

The finished reference used to pick colors. It sits on the left page of a spread.

Printing and coloring tips

Print on A4 or Letter in portrait to keep the original proportions.
Keep the finished version open beside you while you color.
Use slightly heavier paper with water-based markers so the ink shows through less.
Fill the large areas first and leave the small ones for later.
The finished version is only a suggestion. Any colors you like will work.