Snake Coloring Pages

• Corn snake: orange with red-brown blotches outlined in black, harmless, and a popular pet
• King cobra: the longest venomous snake in the world, and it spreads a hood when alarmed
• Rattlesnake: the rattle is a stack of hollow segments, and a new one is added each time the snake sheds
• Ball python: curls into a tight ball with its head tucked inside when it feels unsafe
• Green tree python: bright green as an adult, but yellow or red when young
• Garter snake: a slim garden snake with long stripes running down its body
• Anaconda: the heaviest snake on Earth, and it spends much of its time in water

Snakes smell with their tongues. Each flick picks up scent from the air and carries it to a special organ in the roof of the mouth. A snake has no eyelids, so it can't blink. A clear scale covers each eye instead. As it grows, a snake sheds its skin, often in one piece, like a sock turned inside out. Snakes are cold-blooded and bask in the sun to warm up. Most of the world's snakes are not venomous, but you should never touch a wild one.

Scales look best when you treat the pattern and the base separately. Lay down the lighter base color along the whole body, then add the bands or blotches on top, and finish with a thin dark outline around each marking. The belly is usually paler, often cream or yellow. A darker line along the lower edge of the body makes the snake look round. Colored pencils and fine-tip markers are the right tools here, since a long thin body leaves little room for crayons.