Cheerful Train With Star Wheels Coloring Page

Print this train with star wheels coloring page in seconds and you get a drawing that breaks two rules at once: the wheels have stars in them and the funnel puffs hearts instead of smoke. The Cheerful Train With Star Wheels Coloring Page keeps the engine small in the lower left corner and lets the heart column climb almost the full height of the sheet. It suits a child who likes filling in many small shapes, and it doubles as a Valentine's Day page without ever saying so. Free letter size PDF.

How this coloring page was created

Our concept for Colorin AI was: "A cheerful little train with a happy face and wheels shaped like stars, puffing a tall column of hearts up the page." The printable arrived in a few seconds.

"A tall column" did the work here. Ask for hearts coming out of a funnel and you get a loose scatter across the whole sheet, hearts in the corners, hearts behind the train, no shape to it. Naming a column stacked them into one vertical band about a third of the page wide, which leaves clean white space on both sides and stops the drawing from looking like confetti.

What's in this train with star wheels coloring page

The unusual thing is the ratio. The train takes up roughly a quarter of the page and the hearts take up the rest, so this is really a hearts page with a train attached at the bottom.

For a classroom that is a good trade. Twenty four separate hearts means twenty four chances to try a color, and a child who wants to stop after ten still leaves something that looks intentional.

The count: about twenty four hearts rise from the funnel in three loose sizes, large ones through the middle of the column and small ones filling the gaps at the edges. Two wheels under the cab each hold a five pointed star inside a double ring, and a third smaller wheel sits plain beneath the boiler. The funnel is a wide cylinder with a flat collar. The cab has a curved roof and one tall window with a diagonal shine line. The front skirt is cut into seven strips. The face is two large highlighted ovals, two cheeks and a smile. Two flat clouds float at the sides, well away from the heart column, and neither one overlaps a single heart.

Coloring Tips and Ideas

Color the hearts in a gradient from bottom to top, dark near the funnel and pale at the ceiling of the page. Hearts fade as they rise that way, and the column reads as movement rather than a stack.

The two stars in the wheels deserve to be the brightest thing on the engine. Fill the wheel ring around them in a dark color and leave the stars white, and they will show up from across a room.

If the page is going to be a card, leave the two side clouds completely blank. They are the only large empty shapes left, which makes them the natural place to write a name.