Discus colouring page
A discus outline for children aged 3 to 8, with short facts to read together. Colour it in the Live Aquarium app and it turns into a swimming 3D creature.
This sheet is printed from the app: open "From paper" and tap "Printable coloring pages (for grown-ups)". Printing is free. Ten sheets can be printed from this site.
Discus facts for kids
- Where it lives
- In warm, quiet rivers of the Amazon in South America.
- How big it is
- Like a saucer: up to 20 centimetres.
- What it eats
- Little worms, shrimp and insect larvae.
- And also
- Round and flat like a disc. At first the babies feed on slime from their parents' sides.
What colours to use
The discus is round like a plate and comes in many colours: red, turquoise, orange, with wavy lines across the body. Wavy stripes in two colours look just right.
In the aquarium any colours work: the creature will swim exactly as your child coloured it.
Bring it to life
In the Live Aquarium app the same outline can be coloured on the screen with brushes, fills and stamps, and then it swims in a 3D aquarium, can be fed, petted and named. A printed and coloured sheet can be photographed in the app (with Plus).
