Octopus Coloring Page
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Prints on one US Letter page. Print at 100% / "Actual size". Free for personal and classroom use.
About this coloring page
A cheerful octopus with rosy cheeks and a happy grin floats in the middle of the page. Its curly arms reach outward in loops and spirals, each lined with small round suckers along the underside. Bubbles of different sizes drift up around its round head.
Coloring ideas
Purple, pink, orange or red all make a bright octopus; try a lighter shade for the suckers. Real octopuses can change color, so a rainbow octopus with each arm a different color is perfectly fitting. Fill the background with blue water and a sandy floor with a few shells.
Skills practiced
Real octopuses have eight arms, but only six show in this drawing, so count them together and guess where the other two are hiding. Counting the suckers on one arm adds more practice. Octopuses can change color to hide, which leads to a fun conversation about camouflage: what color would an octopus be on sand, or near seaweed?
Printing tips
The suckers are small circles, so colored pencils or fine markers are easiest. Print at actual size, and pair this page with the whale and under-the-sea pages for an ocean day.
Related pages
Want to keep going? Color Seahorse, Crab on the Beach or Under the Sea next, or browse all ocean coloring pages. For a little learning after the coloring, try our free Count and Trace Numbers 1-10 and Skip Counting by 5s, 10s and 100s worksheets.
