Star Coloring Pages

• Five-point stars: the classic shape, as one big outline or in several sizes.
• Shooting stars: a star with a long streaming tail.
• Moon and stars: a crescent moon with stars hanging around it, for bedtime.
• Starry skies: night scenes over hills, tents and rooftops.
• Star patterns: stars nested inside stars, or one big star filled with doodles.
• Many-pointed stars: eight-point compass stars and twelve-point star mandalas.
• Cut-out stars: bold outlines for garlands, badges and door signs.

The stars in the sky are not pointy. Each one is a giant ball of glowing gas like our sun, which is the closest star to Earth. They look like points with spikes because they are so far away, and because their light wobbles as it passes through our air. That wobble is the twinkle.

Stars come in different colors depending on how hot they are. The hottest burn blue-white. Medium stars like the sun are yellow-white. The coolest glow orange or red.

A shooting star is not a star at all. It's a bit of space rock or dust, often no bigger than a grain of sand, burning up as it hits the air high above us.

To make a star glow on the page:

1. Color the center pale yellow or leave it white.
2. Blend out to golden yellow, then orange at the tips of the points.
3. Shade one side of each point slightly darker, and the star will look folded.
4. Color the sky around it dark blue or purple. A bright star needs a dark background.