#1 Teacher Coloring Page with a Star Award Ribbon

A prize rosette with "#1 Teacher" in its center makes this #1 Teacher coloring page look like the ribbon a winner wears. A ring of rounded scallops circles the middle, five stars sit around the words, and two long tails with notched ends hang below the badge.

It is a free printable page for ages 3 and up, with big shapes and thick lines. A child can color it as an award for the teacher at the end of the year or during Teacher Appreciation Week in May, and the class can pin it to the classroom door.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "a big award rosette ribbon with two short tails hanging below it, with the words #1 Teacher in big hollow letters in its center circle, and small stars around it, drawn with simple bold outlines for kids, the whole ribbon kept small enough to leave a wide white margin below its tails, with the whole drawing kept above an empty white margin at the bottom of the page".

The word "rosette" decided the shape. A rosette is the round, pleated badge handed out at fairs and contests, so the page has a circle in the middle and a ruffled edge around it. In the drawing, the center circle carries the message, a band of scallops makes the ruffle, and the two tails come out from behind the bottom of the badge.

The Award Shape of This #1 Teacher Coloring Page

The page reads as a real award. The number sign and the 1 are the biggest shapes on the sheet, so the message is clear even before it is colored.

It fits a class vote at the end of the year, a teacher's birthday or a thank-you card. A child can color the rosette, cut around the scallops and the tails, and tape the cutout to the teacher's desk or chair. The outline is simple enough to cut with safety scissors.

The rosette edge has 18 rounded scallops, with a small wedge between each pair where the pleats fold. Inside the scallops, the center is drawn as two circles, which leaves a thin ring around the message. The number sign is hollow and has a small closed square in its middle. "Teacher" runs on the line below in rounded letters, with closed centers in the "e," "a" and "e."

Two stars sit beside "#1," and three sit under "Teacher," with the middle one larger. Each tail has a wide center strip and a narrow stripe along both long edges, and it ends in a V-shaped notch.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

First place ribbons at American fairs are usually blue, often with gold lettering. Blue scallops, a white ring and gold letters give the page that look. Coloring the scallops in two shades of blue, light and dark in turn, shows the pleats of the rosette.

The tails can match the scallops, with the narrow edge stripes in a third color. Older kids can shade one side of each scallop a little darker so the rosette looks folded, and a metallic marker adds shine to the five stars. For a class award, each student can color the ribbon in the teacher's favorite color and sign the back.

If the class wants the teacher's name on the ribbon, make a custom award page for your teacher with the name and the subject they teach.

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