30 Alpaca Coloring Pages
Alpacas come from the high Andes mountains of Peru, Bolivia and Chile, where people have raised them for about 6,000 years. Their fleece is soft, warm and has no lanolin, the greasy substance in sheep wool, so it is gentle on skin. Alpacas are smaller than their cousins, llamas, with shorter faces and ears that are short and spear shaped rather than long and curved like a banana. This set gives alpacas a cozy, adventurous style. An alpaca stands on a mountain peak, balances on a stack of rocks or a stump, stretches its long neck and sits upright. Others wear a sweater, a winter hat or a tall hat, carry a backpack and hold a balloon. The pages are tall, which suits an alpaca's long neck. Real alpacas come in about two dozen natural colors, from white and fawn to brown, gray and black. Kids can add patterned sweaters in bright Andean colors like red, magenta and turquoise. Use curly strokes for a fluffy coat.
Smooth lines or lots of curls
Cute Alpaca Character has the fewest inner lines, with a plain oval face and tube-shaped legs, the easiest start for ages 3 to 5. Cute Alpaca and the young alpaca facing forward add bumpy fleece outlines but keep big open spaces. Fluffy Alpaca is the medium page, covered in rows of scalloped curls. Children who finish it can glue cotton balls or yarn scraps on the fleece for a soft, touchable farm craft.
Fleece colors from real alpacas
Real alpacas come in white, cream, fawn, brown, gray and black, so any of those works on these sheets. Try cream with light brown curl edges on the young alpaca, a gray coat on Cute Alpaca, and pastel shades on Cute Alpaca Character for a toy-like look. For Fluffy Alpaca, alternating two light shades row by row makes the thick coat look layered rather than flat.
