Circus Train With Wagons Coloring Page

Add this to your collection of circus train wagons coloring pages and you get a full circus, not just a train. This Circus Train With Wagons Coloring Page winds up the sheet in a long S: a smiling engine at the bottom, then a barred wagon with a monkey holding the bars, then a wagon with a lion looking out, and at the top a striped big top with two flags. Balloons and a cloud fill the left margin. It is the fullest page in this set and rewards a child who likes a project rather than a quick fill.

How this coloring page was created

The concept entered on Colorin AI was: "A festive circus train winding up the page with barred wagons and a wagon carrying a striped tent with tall flags." A print ready page came back in seconds.

"Barred wagons" is the phrase that produced the animals. Ask for circus wagons and you get closed boxes with bunting on them, and whatever is inside stays a mystery. Bars meant the generator had to draw something behind them, and it chose a lion and a monkey, both looking out at the reader. That decision is what turned a vehicle drawing into a scene with characters in it.

About this circus train wagons coloring page

The distinctive thing here is that the two animals are drawn face on and smiling, gripping the bars of their wagons. They are the only living faces in this entire lot of twenty pages besides the engines themselves.

That gives the page a different pull. Children color faces before they color machinery, so the wagons get finished first and the train becomes the reward for staying with it.

The count: the monkey wagon has about nine vertical bars with the monkey's hands wrapped around two of them, and its roof carries two stars and five round studs. The lion wagon has about ten bars, its mane spilling between them, and three stars with five studs on its roof. The big top above them is divided into roughly twelve wedges with a scalloped valance below and two flags on top. Three balloons hang at the left, one with a star, beside a single cloud. The engine has a bell, a spoked wheel with a connecting rod, two stars on its side and a skirt of fine strips. The track winds through more than thirty ties, doubling back on itself twice so that the same rail passes under two different wagons at different heights.

Ways to Color This Page

Color the bars of both wagons a single dark color and leave the animals light. Bars in front of a pale animal read as bars; bars in front of a dark animal disappear, and then the wagon just looks like a striped box.

Use the same two colors on the big top wedges and on the wagon roofs. Repeating a pair across three separate objects is what makes a busy page look designed instead of chaotic.

The three balloons are the only shapes on the page with nothing overlapping them. They are the right place for a color that appears nowhere else, which pulls the eye out to the empty left margin and balances the composition.