Simple Drum Coloring Page

This Simple Drum Coloring Page is a round toy drum with a zigzag band running around the shell, a big five pointed star in the middle of it, and two sticks crossed in an X above the rim. A free printable simple drum coloring page for ages 2 to 8. The lines here really are thick and the shapes really are large, which makes this the easiest drawing in the whole collection to finish.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we entered the concept: "One bold simple drum with a zigzag band and two crossed sticks above it, thick outlines" on Colorin AI and generated a print ready coloring page in seconds. The star came back on its own, sitting right in the center of the zigzag and large enough to interrupt it.

"Crossed sticks" is the part that decided the layout. Sticks resting on the drum head disappear into it and add nothing; crossed above the rim they make a wide X that fills the top third of the sheet and stops the drawing from being a circle alone in the middle of the paper.

Details of this simple drum coloring page

The drum is drawn from slightly above, so the head shows as a full oval rather than a flat line. That one bit of perspective is what makes it look like something a child could pick up.

It also creates the biggest single area on the page. The head is wide open with nothing drawn inside it, which is the part a very young child colors first and the part that makes the drawing look done.

Here is the count. The head is an oval with a second oval drawn just inside it as a rim. Below it the shell is banded three times: a plain hoop at the top, the zigzag in the middle, and a hoop at the bottom with a further ring under that as a base. The zigzag runs the whole way around in tall spikes, three of them showing to the left of the star and three to the right. The star is five pointed and large enough that its top point reaches into the upper hoop and its two lower points hang past the bottom one. The two sticks cross just above the head, each one a long tapered rod with a rounded bead at the tip and a rounded knob at the other end, so four ends stick out beyond the crossing point.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Toy drums are red and white with a gold rim, and copying that gives a good result in about four pencils. The alternate is to treat the zigzag as a stripe pattern and color the peaks and the gaps in two different colors, which makes the shell look like it is spinning.

Leave the star for last and color it in something that appears nowhere else on the page. It sits on top of the zigzag rather than beside it, and a contrasting color is what makes that overlap read correctly.

Got a toy drum in the house? Turn a photo into a coloring page and color your own instead.