1. Patterned sun
Sixteen straight rays and sixteen wavy ones round a disc of petals and beads.
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Sun and moon coloring pages
Six celestial pages: two suns with wavy and straight rays round a patterned disc, three crescent moons, one banded, one tiled and one in panes, among stars, and a page with the sun and the moon together.
There are no faces on any of them, only pattern. Print them on letter paper or color them on screen.
Each page prints on one sheet of US letter paper. Under every page are buttons to print just that one, to color it on screen, or to save it as a picture.
2. Sun in bold lines
Twelve of each ray and a simpler disc, with heavy outlines.
3. Banded crescent moon
A crescent striped with stars, waves and scallops, with stars in its hollow.
4. Tiled crescent moon
A crescent covered in one repeating tile.
5. Stained glass moon
A crescent cut into large panes.
6. Sun and moon together
A sun at upper left and a crescent at lower right, with stars between.
About the sun and the moon
The sun is a star, the nearest one, about 93 million miles from Earth. Its light takes a little over eight minutes to reach us. The moon makes no light of its own: what we see is sunlight reflected from its surface, and the part we can see lit changes as the moon circles the Earth.
A full cycle of phases, from new moon to new moon, takes about 29.5 days. A crescent is the thin lit edge that shows just after or just before the new moon. Seen from the Northern Hemisphere, a crescent in the evening sky after sunset, lit on its right side, is waxing: the moon is growing toward full.
The moon’s phases are explained by NASA Science.
Color ideas for these pages
Suns are usually colored in yellows and oranges, but alternating warm rays, straight ones yellow and wavy ones red-orange, makes the page livelier. Color the disc from pale yellow at the center to deep orange at the rim.
For the moons, cool colors work best: silver grays, pale blue and violet. Fill the page background with dark blue and the moon and stars will seem to shine.
Which page to start with
This set has 6 pages: 2 bold and easy and 4 medium. The quickest to finish is “Stained glass moon,” with 112 areas to color, and the longest is “Tiled crescent moon,” with 437. Bold and easy pages have heavy lines and large shapes that suit markers and tired eyes; detailed pages have fine lines for sharp pencils or gel pens.
How printing, saving and coloring on screen work is explained on the coloring pages home. If you like filling shapes by number, Linseed Loft Color by Number is a free paint by number game with 74 pictures.