Coloring Plus
How to Enjoy Coloring Plus
What kinds of shapes and forms do pandas and sea animals have? Let's try coloring while looking at photos and VR.
If regular coloring isn't enough for you, we also have sheets where you can draw the animal's shape yourself before coloring. Choose your favorite sheet and give it a try!
(i) Choose the animal you want to color and print out the coloring sheet.
(ii) Look at photos or use “Kahaku VR（リンクを新しいタブで開きます）” to check the animal's shape and colors.
(iii) Try coloring or drawing your own picture.
To Parents and Guardians
We have 7 different coloring sheets, so download the ones that best match your child's age and enjoy! Access "Experience at Home! Kahaku VR（リンクを新しいタブで開きます）" and try finding the animals featured in the coloring sheets.
Main target: Preschool children to elementary school students
Choose an Animal to Color
- Kahaku VR: “Panda (side（リンクを新しいタブで開きます）)”, “Panda (front（リンクを新しいタブで開きます）)”
- What kind of pattern does a panda have?
- How far does the black area around its eyes go?
- Is the tail black or white?
- Kahaku VR: "Sperm Whale（リンクを新しいタブで開きます）"
- Click on the photo to open the photo gallery.
- It has many scars around its face!
- Its teeth are shaped differently from human teeth.
- Kahaku VR: "Giant Pacific Octopus（リンクを新しいタブで開きます）"」
- What color are the "suction cups"?
- Pay attention to the arrangement of the "suction cups."
- How does the octopus move?
- Kahaku VR: "Finless Porpoise（リンクを新しいタブで開きます）"
- Its eyes are cute!
- It's missing a fin.
- How is it different from a dolphin?
What kind of animal is a finless porpoise?
The finless porpoise is a small type of toothed whale about 2 meters long that lives only in Asian waters, including Japan, around the world.
In Japan, it's called “Sunameri” because its slimy skin looks like sand. In English, it’s called the Finless porpoise because it doesn't have a dorsal fin.
*Dolphins are also members of the toothed whale family.
From Yuko Tajima (Senior Curator, Department of Zoology)
- Kahaku VR: "King Crab（リンクを新しいタブで開きます）"
- What color is the real crab?
- Pay attention to the shape of its legs.
- The area around the eyes is tricky, too.
- Kahaku VR: "Ornate Spiny Lobster（リンクを新しいタブで開きます）"
- Let’s color while watching the Kahaku VR!
- Where are the eyes?
- Can you color its body
●Let's color while watching the Kahaku VR!
●What shape are its feet and head?
●Can you even draw the patterns on its shell?
What kind of turtle is a sea turtle?
Under a turtle's shell are bony plates called osteoderms that protect its body firmly.
On land turtles, the bony plates on the back and belly are connected, making a box-like shell. However, in sea turtles, the plates on the back and belly are separate.
Because of this, sea turtles can adjust their body thickness to handle water pressure when they dive.
From Natsuhiko Yoshikawa, (Curator, Department of Zoology)