Fruit Shapes Coloring Page with Four Smiling Fruits and Shape Names

A round orange, a slice of watermelon, a lemon and a slice of star fruit smile from this fruit shapes coloring page, and each fruit has the outline of a shape children learn in preschool. The orange matches the circle and the watermelon matches the triangle. The lemon matches the oval, and the star fruit matches the star.

The name of each shape sits under its fruit in hollow capital letters: CIRCLE, TRIANGLE, OVAL and STAR. It is a free printable for ages 2 to 6, and the simple faces and wide outlines make it an easy page for a shapes unit or a healthy food week.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "four smiling fruits that each match a shape: a round orange, a triangle slice of watermelon, an oval lemon and a star shaped slice of star fruit, each with the name of its shape in hollow letters under 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".

The words "each match a shape" paired every fruit with one figure, so the page teaches four shapes through four foods. "Each with the name of its shape in hollow letters under it" put a word below every fruit, and a child can match the picture to the name. "Smiling" gave the fruits their faces, with round eyes and small open mouths.

What's in This Fruit Shapes Coloring Page

Each fruit keeps the outline of its figure. The orange is a circle, and the watermelon slice is a triangle with three corners and a curved rind along the bottom. The lemon is an oval with a small point at each end, and the star fruit has five points.

A teacher can name the fruit, then the shape, and then point to the word under it. Children can trace the three corners of the watermelon and the five points of the star fruit and count them aloud. At snack time, children can hold a real orange or lemon next to the drawing and compare the shapes.

The orange has a leaf with veins, a short stem and a small star shape where the stem meets the fruit, plus two short curved lines near its top edge. The watermelon slice has seven teardrop seeds, and its rind is a band between two curved lines.

The lemon has a leaf with veins, a short stem and two groups of three small dots, one group on each side of its face. The star fruit has a second star line inside its outline and three small ovals, one above its eyes and two below its mouth. The orange and the lemon also have oval cheeks.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Each fruit can take its real color, so children connect the drawing with the food. The orange goes orange, the watermelon red with a green rind, the lemon yellow and the star fruit light green. Black or dark brown works for the seeds.

Color each shape word in the same color as its fruit, so the word CIRCLE turns orange like the orange above it. Crayons fill the four big fruits quickly, and colored pencils give more control on the seeds, the leaves and the small ovals.

For the fruits your class eats at snack time, generate a new set of fruit shapes and add a grape for the circle or a banana for a crescent.

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