Easter coloring pages

Spring is at its busiest in the Easter coloring pages: bunnies hiding painted eggs in the garden, two children on an egg hunt by a picket fence, a bunny riding a cart trimmed with ribbons, and woolly lambs playing under a blooming apple tree.

Little ones can start with a basket of painted eggs, a chick hatching from its shell or a round bunny hugging an oversized carrot. The spring picnic and the bunny family among tulips and daffodils give older children more to fill.

Easter eggs are the place for patterns. Before coloring, draw stripes, zigzags, dots or little flowers across each egg with a pencil, then fill the bands in different colors. Pastels look springlike; one strong color per egg looks bolder.

The child decorating eggs at a table is a fitting sheet to color the same week the real eggs get dyed. Printed a few days ahead, these pages also keep children busy at a family brunch or over a long Easter weekend at grandma’s.