A ring-shaped king cake sits on a tall cake stand in this king cake coloring page, topped with puffy mounds of dripping icing and small dashes of sprinkles. Strings of round beads hang in loops from the rim of the stand and pile up on the table on both sides. Above the cake, a mask with a pointed crest sits between two stars and two curly streamers. It is an easy page for ages 4 to 8.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "a round Mardi Gras king cake shaped like a ring, covered with icing and sprinkles, sitting on a cake stand, with strings of round beads draped around the cake stand, drawn with simple bold outlines for kids, the cake stand and the beads kept small enough to leave a wide white margin below them, with the whole drawing kept above an empty white margin at the bottom of the page".

How to use it

Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the day before Ash Wednesday. In 2027 it falls on Tuesday, February 9. The king cake is the cake of the Carnival season, so a teacher can add the page to the classroom calendar for that week. Children can color the sprinkles in three colors and the beads in a repeating pattern. A family can color it on the day they share a king cake.