Simple Trumpet Coloring Page

This Simple Trumpet Coloring Page stands the instrument on end with the bell flaring wide open at the top of the sheet and the mouthpiece pointing down at the bottom. A free printable simple trumpet coloring page for ages 2 to 8. The outlines really are thick, the bell is the biggest single shape on the page, and there is nothing on it small enough to give a young child trouble.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we entered the concept: "One bold simple trumpet pointing upward with three valves and a flared bell, thick outlines" on Colorin AI and generated a print ready coloring page in seconds. A row of small scallops came back drawn around the inside lip of the bell, which is not something a real trumpet has.

"Pointing upward" is what makes this drawing work on letter paper. A trumpet drawn the way it is played lies across the page and wastes most of the height; stood on end it runs from the top edge to the bottom one, and the bell gets to be as wide as the sheet allows.

Why this simple trumpet coloring page is special

The whole instrument is one continuous tube. It leaves the mouthpiece at the bottom, climbs past the valves, loops around at the base and opens out into the bell, and the drawing never cuts that line.

A child can follow it with a finger from one end to the other, which is a rare thing on a coloring page and turns out to be the easiest way to explain what a brass instrument actually is.

Here is the count. The bell at the top is a wide cone with a double rim around its mouth and a row of small scallops drawn just inside that rim. Three valve casings stand in a vertical stack down the middle, and each one carries a button on a short stem sticking out to the left, three buttons in all. Two slide tubes run alongside them on the right, and three small round buttons sit on the right hand face of the valve block. Below the valves the tubing curves into a deep U at the bottom of the page and comes back up, and a small hook is fitted above the block for the player's finger. Two long lines run down the inside face of the cone, so the bell reads as hollow rather than flat, and a ferrule ring is drawn around the leadpipe partway down. The mouthpiece finishes the line at the lower left, a short stem opening into a shallow cup.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Trumpets are brass, so yellow and orange laid over each other give a better result than yellow alone. Pressing harder along one edge of the tube and lighter along the other makes the whole thing look round instead of flat.

The three valve buttons are worth a different color. They are the only parts of a real trumpet that are not brass, and picking them out in white or silver is a one minute change that makes the drawing look accurate.

Does someone at school play the trumpet? Turn a photo into a coloring page and color the real one instead.