A hexagon has six sides and six corners, and the big one in the middle of this hexagon shape coloring page is wide enough for a child to count them with a finger. The word HEXAGON runs across the top in thick outlined letters. Below it, a smiling bee with a striped body flies next to a honeycomb. The honeycomb has seven small hexagons, one in the center with six around it, and honey drips over its top edge. It is an easy page for preschool and kindergarten, about ages 3 to 6.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "one big six-sided hexagon in the middle of the page, with the word HEXAGON in hollow capital letters above it and a small bee and a small piece of honeycomb below it, drawn with simple bold outlines for preschool and kindergarten, with the whole drawing kept above an empty white margin at the bottom of the page".

How to use it

A kindergarten teacher can ask children to count the six sides of the big hexagon and then the seven cells of the honeycomb. Bees build their honeycomb in this shape, so the page links a math word to an animal children already know. During a shapes week, the colored sheets can hang together as a class beehive on the wall. For a turtle with a shell made of hexagons, design a hexagon turtle page.