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Easy mandala coloring pages
A round mandala made of just four rings, so the spaces are large enough for crayons and thick markers. It is for preschool and early elementary children, and anyone who wants a quick page.
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On this page
Many mandala pages are made for adults, with tiny spaces that a five-year-old cannot stay inside. This one opens on the Simple setting, which draws just four rings around a small center, so each shape is big enough for a crayon.
What prints
The page is titled "Easy Mandala Coloring Page" when Simple is chosen. A line under the title says to color the rings from the middle out, or pick three colors and repeat them, and to press New design for another one. The mandala fills the page. It has a small center circle with a smaller circle inside it, and four rings of shapes around that. A ring might hold petals with a small petal inside, plain circles, triangles, scallops or beaded petals. The count in each ring is between 8 and 32, so the shapes are large when there are few and smaller toward the outer rings.
The outermost line is thicker. The sheet has no name line and no key.
The settings
- Detail: Simple (big spaces, for kids), Medium or Detailed (for adults). The preset is Simple, with 4 rings. Medium has 6 and Detailed has 9.
Each press of New design makes a different mandala, so printing twenty pages gives twenty different ones.
Using the page with young children
Set the table with crayons, since they stay in the shapes better for young hands than thin pens. Give a limit, such as "use only red, yellow and blue", or ask the child to color all the circles one color and all the petals another. Naming the shapes while they color is good practice: circle, triangle, petal, curve.
A child who is new to coloring may like to start at the outside, where the shapes are widest. Others begin at the center because it is the smallest part to finish first. Neither way is wrong. If a child grows tired, one ring colored is a reasonable stopping place.
Plain paper is fine. Print at 100 percent. Children who like to cut can trim the circle out and glue it onto a colored sheet as a frame.
Worked example: a rainy-day basket
A father has a four-year-old and a seven-year-old at home on a wet afternoon. He prints two Simple mandalas and one Medium. The four-year-old fills the Simple page with crayon, going ring by ring, and finishes in about fifteen minutes, with some white left in the petals. The seven-year-old takes the Medium page and chooses a three-color rule. Then both pages go on the fridge. The next day the child asks for a new one, so he presses New design and prints another.
Next steps
When Simple feels too easy, try the standard mandala coloring pages at Medium. For a different layout, color by number has numbered squares to follow. The Met's collection site, linked above, shows how artists have used round designs.