Banana Coloring Pages

A banana comes with its own wrapper and a fairly reliable place in the lunch bag. It can disappear into breakfast, end up mashed into a loaf, or wait on the counter until someone notices that baking has become the sensible option. Few fruits fit so comfortably into the ordinary business of a kitchen.

Banana coloring pages give that familiar curve a turn in the spotlight. There is something pleasing about a fruit recognizable before a single detail is added, even to a child just learning its name. Its sunny reputation helps, too, especially on a morning when breakfast needs a little encouragement.

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Make a Hanging Banana-and-Cloud Decoration

Bananas floating among stars and clouds make a pleasantly unlikely little sky. Because the shapes sit separately on this page, they can become individual pieces for a hanging decoration rather than staying in their printed arrangement.

Use yellow bananas, pale blue clouds, and orange stars, leaving a narrow white border around each shape. Mount the colored page on lightweight card before cutting, with an adult helping around the smaller stars.

Attach the pieces to short lengths of thread and tape them along a strip of card. Hang a single banana at each end and the bunch nearer the middle. Vary the thread lengths so the clouds and stars sit between the fruit instead of hiding behind it.

Follow the Banana Bunch Down to Its Blossom

The bananas are only part of this plant portrait. Beneath the hanging bunch is a pointed, layered blossom, a detail easily missed when bananas usually arrive at home already separated from the plant.

For a young fruit enthusiast, place the finished page beside a banana from the kitchen. Follow the pictured bunch down to the blossom, then look at where the kitchen banana was cut from its stem. A small handwritten arrow can identify the blossom without crowding the many narrow bananas above it.

Try green leaves with yellow-green fruit and a deep reddish purple blossom. Those are suggested colors for the drawing, rather than a claim about the particular variety shown.

Try a Bold Banana Print

Three broad leaves fan out behind this banana bunch, while the stars sit apart from both. The strong outlines lend themselves to the bold look of a print on a summer tote or a favorite cotton shirt.

Choose bright yellow fruit, deep teal leaves, and coral stars, using flat areas of color rather than shading. Let the white background remain part of the design.

To try the idea as a fabric pattern, draw two smaller banana curves in the empty spaces between stars. Repeat the same curve rather than adding a different kind of fruit. The large printed bunch stays at the center, with the smaller suggested shapes giving the surrounding space a deliberate rhythm.

Copy the Little Marks on a Real Banana

Set a banana from the kitchen beside this large outline before starting. Its skin may be evenly colored, green near the stem, or dotted with small brown marks; use what is actually there rather than trying to make a perfect yellow crescent.

Color the main shape to match the fruit, then add just a few of its visible spots or streaks. The long printed lines can help place any darker strip along the curve.

A small produce sticker is another familiar detail you could draw onto the broad side. Copy its simple shape and largest mark instead of squeezing in tiny lettering. The finished banana can look like the one waiting for today's snack.

Choose a Bowl for the Fruit

Give the strawberries red skins, the bananas yellow peels, and the grapes purple, then choose a quieter color for the bowl. A narrow blue band around its rim would suit a white base.

The fruit has filled this bowl almost to overflowing, but its broad curved front is still blank. That space is ready for a pottery pattern, whether the bowl at home has blue stripes, little dots, or a bright rim.

Draw your chosen pattern across the front, following the bowl's curve rather than continuing through the fruit. Repeat one part of it on the small foot underneath. The apple and strawberries overlap the top edge, so the decoration naturally disappears behind them.

Give the Reaching Monkey a Leafy Canopy

The monkey's hands have not reached the bananas yet. Its raised arms sit below a wide canopy of leaves, with enough open space between them to keep that eager stretch easy to see.

Use a warm brown monkey and yellow bananas, with a lighter green on the broad leaf nearest the fruit and darker green on the leaves behind it. That small change separates the overlapping shapes without adding more outlines.

Keep the canopy's printed splits and folded tips visible as you work. They give each leaf an uneven edge, quite different from the smooth bananas hanging below. The curled tail at the other side balances the long reach, so it deserves the same attention as the hands.