Refrigerator Coloring Pages

A Box That Keeps Food Cold

Refrigerator is a machine that keeps food and drinks cold.
When food is cold, it stays fresh longer so you can enjoy it for a long time.
It is a very important home appliance found in almost every kitchen.

It Has Many Rooms

Today's Refrigerator has many rooms with different temperatures.
You put milk and side dishes in the biggest refrigerator compartment.
There is also a freezer to freeze food, a vegetable drawer for veggies, and an ice maker to make ice.
In the first coloring page, Refrigerator has a big door on top and drawers at the bottom!

Door Shelves

Inside the door of Refrigerator, there are shelves.
You can keep drink bottles, eggs, and sauces standing up here.
In the second coloring page, a boy is reaching for a door shelf.
Remember to close the door right after you open it!

An Ice Refrigerator from Long Ago

Before electric Refrigerator became common, people used an ice refrigerator.
They put a big block of ice from the ice shop in the top section of a wooden box. The coldness chilled the food in the bottom section.
When the ice melted, they bought a new block of ice to put inside!

Try Helping Out with Refrigerator

When you come back from shopping, help put things inside Refrigerator!
Think about where everything goes. Milk and juice go in the door shelves, veggies go in the vegetable drawer, and ice cream goes in the freezer.
Ask your family where to put each item!

Tips for Using Refrigerator Well

If you leave the door of Refrigerator open, the cold air inside escapes and uses up a lot of electricity.
Decide what you want to take out before you open it, and close it quickly!
Not stuffing too much food inside is another secret to keeping things extra cold.

The Light Inside Refrigerator

When you open the door of Refrigerator, a light turns on inside.
When you close the door, the light turns off automatically.
It is nice and bright inside, so you can find what you need right away!

3 Coloring Pages

There are 3 coloring pages: Refrigerator, a boy opening Refrigerator, and an old ice refrigerator.
Have fun coloring while comparing Refrigerator today with the one from long ago!

Choose colors for Refrigerator

Refrigerator comes in many colors like white, silver, light pinkish silver, and black.
The Refrigerator used as the model for the 1st page was light pinkish silver.
It is also fun to color it the same color as the one at your house!

Tips to make it shiny

The doors of Refrigerator are smooth and shiny.
If you leave a white vertical line in the middle of the door when you color, it will look shiny in the light!
If you make the side a little darker, it will look 3D.

Make the inside of the pockets colorful

For the bottles in the door pockets on the 2nd page, try coloring them as your favorite drinks, like orange juice or white milk!

Color the icebox in wood colors

If you color the icebox on the 3rd page in orangey brown, it will look like a real wooden box!
Color the metal parts on the door silver or gray.

Draw more things in the vegetable drawer

Try drawing more vegetables like cabbage, carrots, and tomatoes in front of the drawer of Refrigerator!
Your picture will be colorful with green, orange, and red.

The boy's clothes

Try coloring the boy's T-shirt on the 2nd page white and his pants dark navy blue.
If you color the floor brown and the wall cream color, you will get a bright kitchen!

Draw ice in the icebox

Try drawing a big square piece of ice inside the top door of the icebox on the 3rd page!
If you color the ice light blue and leave some white spots, it will look nice and cool.

Japan's First Refrigerator

Japan's very first electric Refrigerator went on sale in 1930 from Shibaura Engineering Works (now Toshiba).
It was very expensive, so only rich families had one.

The Three Sacred Treasures

In the late 1950s, the Refrigerator was called one of "The Three Sacred Treasures," along with the washing machine and the black-and-white TV.
They were dream home appliances that everyone wanted to have.

Ice Shops

Back when people used ice refrigerators, there were ice shops in town, and they delivered big blocks of ice to homes.
The ice was cut up with a saw and sold.
Even today, there are ice shops that make ice for shaved ice treats!

Things You Should Not Put in the Refrigerator

Things like potatoes, onions, and bananas can spoil easily if they get too cold, so people often do not put them in the Refrigerator.
Different foods like to be stored in different spots.
Ask an adult at home where they store these foods!

Refrigerator Temperatures

The main Refrigerator area is cooled to about 2 to 6 degrees Celsius, and the freezer is about minus 18 degrees Celsius.
Inside the freezer, it is cold enough to freeze everything solid!