Station Clock with a Train Coloring Page

Station Clock with a Train Coloring Page puts a big round platform clock at the top of the sheet, hanging from an iron bracket with a scroll curl at its elbow. All twelve numbers are drawn plainly and all three hands are there. Most clock coloring pages are decorative, with flowers around the dial or numbers replaced by shapes. This one is a working clock face, which means it can be colored and then used to practice telling the time. Ages 2 to 8. Free letter size PDF.

How this coloring page was created

The concept we entered on Colorin AI was: "One bold simple round station clock on a bracket at the top of the page with clear hands and numbers, with a small simple train below it." It came back ready to print in seconds.

"Clear hands and numbers" is what kept the dial readable. A clock asked for as decoration comes back with a patterned face, and the numbers turn into marks that nobody can read. Asking for clarity produced twelve plain digits with space around them, which is the difference between a picture of a clock and a clock a child can be quizzed on.

What makes this clock coloring page unique

The bracket is the part that makes it a station clock rather than a wall clock. It is an L shaped arm with a decorative scroll curling at the corner and a second curl below, the ironwork that hangs a clock out over a platform so passengers can see it from down the track.

That detail also gives the page a second, completely different texture. The dial is all circles and digits; the bracket is all curves and thin bars, and the two sit side by side.

The count: the clock face is a circle inside a circle, with twelve numbers around the inner ring and three hands meeting at a small hub, one short, one long and one thin. The bracket holds a flat top plate, an upright post and two scroll curls. Below, the steam engine is drawn in profile facing left, with a diamond shaped stack trailing four rounded smoke puffs and one separate small cloud. Two domes sit on the boiler and the cab has two square windows under a flat roof, with a tender behind it. Three large spoked wheels carry about eight spokes each, and five smaller plain wheels run beneath the frame. A cowcatcher of five slats sits at the front, and one long ground line runs under everything.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Set the time before you color. Ask a child what the hands say, or have them color the hour hand one color and the minute hand another so the two stop being confused with each other.

Keep the dial pale and the bracket dark. A clock face is light so the numbers show, and the ironwork holding it is heavy metal. Reversing those two makes the clock disappear into the wall.

The engine below can take the brightest colors on the page. It is the smaller of the two objects and it needs the help, and there is nothing near it to clash with.