Mercury · Color reference
Mercury Coloring Page Color Example
Color example for the Mercury coloring page. A color reference for the mercury page, painted in warm gray, stone beige, pale brown. Use it to plan your colors, then print the matching black-and-white line art.
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Activity guide for this page
- Recommended age
- Ages 4–7
- Estimated time
- 10–20 min
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Areas to color
- about 17
Coloring order
- Fill Mercury's round body with one grayish brown first. Make the eyes dark and color the inside of the smile pink.
- Color the inside of each big round crater a deeper brown. For the tiny circle dents, dab the crayon on in little taps.
- Use yellow for the small Sun in the top right and the three beams reaching toward Mercury. Finish with the orbit line and stars.
Questions to talk about
- Mercury has so many round dents. How do you think they got there?
- Sunlight is streaming toward Mercury from the top right. How does it feel?
- Have you ever dug a hole in a sandbox? How big did it get?
Take it further
Draw lots of craters on paper with brown and gray crayons, then give each one a funny name to make your own map of Mercury.
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.
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Color example for the Mercury coloring page. A color reference for the mercury page, painted in warm gray, stone beige, pale brown. Use it to plan your colors, then print the matching black-and-white line art.
A reference showing the colors of the planet or spacecraft. Follow it or choose your own. 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.
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