16 Banana Coloring Pages
Bananas grow in hanging bunches called hands, and each banana is called a finger. The plants look like trees but are actually giant herbs, because their trunks are made of tightly wrapped leaves instead of wood. Bananas are also naturally a little radioactive thanks to potassium, though the amount is harmless. This set makes bananas silly and sculptural. A banana peels upright, its peel spirals, and bananas hang from a rope, stack five high and form a totem of three. One sits in a flower pot, another stands with a tall leaf, and bunches appear on their own and next to a plant. Ripe bananas are yellow, with brown freckles as they get sweeter, and unripe ones are green. Red bananas and small finger bananas exist too, which gives kids more color ideas. Inside, the fruit is cream colored. These pages make a fun snack-time activity and can start conversations about where fruit grows. Simple bunches suit toddlers, and the spiral peel suits older kids.
Simple fruit shapes for small hands
Cute Banana and Cute Banana Character have the fewest sections, so they suit ages 3 to 5. Banana Bunch adds three curving fruits joined at the stem, and Peeled Banana shows the peel and fruit as separate areas. For a snack-time activity, peel a real banana with the class, then have children color Peeled Banana to show which part is the peel and which part they eat.
Green, yellow and brown bananas
Bananas change color as they ripen, from green to yellow to speckled brown, so children can show a different stage on each sheet. Try pale green near the stem on Banana Bunch, sunny yellow on Cute Banana Character, and a few brown speckles on Cute Banana. On Peeled Banana, cream or off-white for the fruit and the inside of the peel helps it stand out from the yellow outside.
