Golden Week Coloring Pages

A long holiday with many special days

Golden Week is a long holiday from the end of April to early May when several national holidays come together. It is a super fun time to go on trips or enjoy outdoor activities with your family and friends during the nice spring weather!

What makes it special and what does it mean?

Golden Week includes important holidays like Children's Day, and it is full of wishes for growing up and going on new journeys.

• Children's growth: May 5th is "Children's Day", a day to wish for boys to grow up healthy and happy. People fly carp streamers in the sky, wishing for kids to grow up strong like carps.
• Trips and travel: With such a long holiday, lots of people ride the bullet train and go on trips to famous places like castles and Mount Fuji.
• Gifts from nature: It is a wonderful time when spring turns into early summer. It is perfect for going on picnics, playing in the fields and hills, and enjoying nature.

How to enjoy Golden Week

During Golden Week, many people leave home to go to all kinds of fun places!

• Carp streamers: People fly the father carp, mother carp, and child carps high in the sky to wish for everyone in the family to grow up strong and do great things.
• Sightseeing and trips: Riding a bullet train to far-off places or going up in a hot air balloon lets you try special things you cannot usually do.
• Outdoor fun: Having a family picnic in a park or field and eating delicious lunch boxes is one of the best ways to have fun!

How to choose colors: Let’s use bright colors for the blue sky and carp streamers!

For your Golden Week coloring page, use lots of bright, vivid colors to show the clear blue sky and the excitement of a trip!

• Basic colors: Choose mainly blue (for the sky and rivers), green (for grass and trees), red and black (for Koinobori), and white or bright colors (for the Shinkansen and clouds).

Colors for each motif:

• Koinobori (Carp Streamers): Use bright colors like black, red, blue, and green! If you carefully color each scale pattern, it will look just like it is swimming in the sky.
• Shinkansen (Bullet Train): It is so much fun to color it like a real Shinkansen using white with blue or green! If you color the windows and tracks in black or gray, you can really feel its super speed.
• Mount Fuji: Use blue or light blue to make it look grand! Coloring the top of the mountain white for snow will make it super pretty.
• Castle: If you color it with white, black, and dark brown, it will look like a cool and historic castle.
• Nature: For the trees and grass, try mixing different greens like yellow-green and dark green! This will show how rich and lively nature is.

How to Color for a 3D Effect: Show Distance and How the Carp Move!

Faraway scenery and the 3D feel of the person in front, plus the movement of the carp streamers—let's show them all! Places in shadow:

• Try adding "shadows" to places where the light doesn't reach, like under the castle roof, behind the tree trunk, or behind the people! Use a color that is darker than your main color to make your picture look like it has depth.

Where the light hits:

• Koinobori (carp streamers): Color the bottom side darker and the top side lighter to show the round shapes. This makes them look like they are puffing up in the wind!
• Sky: Color around the sun with bright yellow or white to show the sparkling sunlight!

Let's Add Texture!

Colored pencils: For the water surface, color with light blue and blue using side-to-side lines, then add white lines for reflected light to show how the water sways! Scales: Color the tiny scale patterns on the Koinobori carefully to make it look super cool and powerful!

Tips for enjoying your coloring page!

• Let's draw travel scenes!
  • Try coloring the Shinkansen and castle in the coloring page while imagining where they are going, and fill them with the excitement of travel!
• Smiling faces of your family!
  • Color the faces of the family on the picnic with a bright skin tone to make a fun picture where everyone is smiling!