Surprised Face Coloring Page with Wide Round Eyes and an Open Mouth

Raised eyebrows, wide round eyes and a mouth open in an O make up this surprised face coloring page. The face is one big circle that fills almost the whole width of the sheet, drawn with a thick, even outline. Every feature is a simple closed shape, so a young child can fill each feature with a single crayon.

It is a free printable for ages 3 to 6. Preschool teachers can use it to name the feeling of surprise, and child therapists can use the big face to practice copying an expression in a mirror.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "one big round surprised face filling most of the page, with raised eyebrows, wide round eyes and a round open mouth, drawn with thick outlines, with the whole drawing kept above an empty white margin at the bottom of the page". The face on this sheet came from that single line.

"Filling most of the page" made the circle almost as wide as the sheet itself. "Wide round eyes" became two large circles, each with a smaller circle and a tiny highlight inside. "Raised eyebrows" set two crescent brows high on the face, and "a round open mouth" became an oval mouth. A curved line near the bottom of the mouth marks the tongue. "Thick outlines" drew every shape with the same heavy line.

A Closer Look at This Surprised Face Coloring Page

A surprised face reads from the eyes, the brows and the mouth, and this page draws only those features. With no nose, ears or hair on the face, a child looks straight at the expression.

The plain face works well for a mirror activity. A child makes a surprised face in a mirror, compares their own eyebrows and mouth with the drawing, and then colors it.

The face circle is about 86 percent of the page width and a little taller than it is wide. Each eye is built from three circles, one inside the other, with a large outer circle, a smaller iris and a tiny highlight at the iris's upper right. Each outer eye circle is about a third of the face width. The two brows are crescents with rounded tips that curve down at the outer ends, and they sit just above the eyes. The mouth is an oval a little taller than it is wide.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Fill the face in yellow and leave the highlight circles white so the eyes look shiny. A darker shade inside the mouth and pink on the tongue give the open mouth some depth.

The large outer eye circles leave room for a pattern, so older children can try stripes or dots around the iris. For a feelings lesson, color the brows in a bold color and point out how high they sit, then ask the child to make the same face.

To show what caused the surprise, create a surprised face next to a gift box or a jack-in-the-box and print it beside this sheet.

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