Dinosaur coloring pages

A friendly T-Rex among ferns and volcanoes leads these dinosaur coloring pages, along with a spinosaurus wading with a fish in its jaws, an armored ankylosaurus in a rocky valley and three pterodactyls gliding over a canyon.

For preschoolers there is a baby dino hatching from a speckled egg, a baby triceratops in tall grass, a brontosaurus poking its head through a palm leaf and a sleepy stegosaurus. The velociraptor pack and the watering hole are much busier.

Nobody knows exactly what color most dinosaurs were, so any choice is fair. Many children like to give the back plates or the horns a bright color and keep the body darker, and a pattern of spots or stripes on the skin makes each one look different.

A dinosaur sheet is a good companion to a museum visit or a library book on the subject, since children can find the same animals and say their names. The sheet with a mother curled around her nest of eggs pairs nicely with the hatching baby.