Bold easy cactus coloring page with tall saguaro, sun, clouds, rocks, and small prickly pear cacti

Tall Saguaro Under a Big Desert Sun

A tall saguaro lifts two curving arms beneath a bright round sun, with puffy clouds and tiny desert cacti nearby.

Free to print for personal and classroom use. This coloring page is part of the Cactus collection, made for ages 2–4 and drawn in a Bold & Easy style.

🎨 How to color it

Give the tall saguaro a soft sage green, the round sun a golden yellow, the three puffy clouds a pale sky blue, and the little rocks a warm tan. For toddler hands, use chunky crayons to fill the big cactus arms and sun first, and do not worry about staying inside the small spine marks. Add one special touch by making the sun rays orange and yellow in a simple pattern around the circle.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 19 zones and 6 colors, sized for kids. Tiny unnumbered slivers borrow the color of their neighbors, and the little model above shows the finished page whenever you want to check your work. More grids like this live in our color by number gallery.

Prefer classic line art? Open this drawing as a regular coloring page.

The story behind this coloring page

Bix Builds a Sun Tray — Each morning, Bix held his flat little stone and traced a sandy circle around it. Scritch, scritch, went his cactus arm. Read the full story →

Each morning, Bix held his flat little stone and traced a sandy circle around it. Scritch, scritch, went his cactus arm. He wanted a sun tray made by him.

One day, puff! The wind blew his circle away. Because of that, Bix pressed pebbles around the stone. Because of that, the tray stayed put, warm and bright.

“I made it,” whispered Bix. Next time you see the big sun above his arms, can you find the little stones waiting below?