Hiragana "Gu" Coloring Pages

Colorful and Chewy "Gummies"

This is a chewy treat with a fruity taste that everyone loves!

• They come in many cute shapes, like bears and rings.

• They come in red, yellow, and green. Looking at them before eating is so exciting!

Riding the Wind "Glider"

This is an amazing airplane that glides through the big sky without an engine!

• It spreads its big white wings like a bird and flies far away quietly using only the wind.

• People who love flying ride in it and enjoy the wonderful views of nature.

Catching the Ball "Baseball Glove"

This is a big leather glove you wear on your hand when you play baseball!

• It is made tough so you can catch hard flying balls tightly without hurting your hand.

• If you use it every day for practice, it will fit your hand perfectly and become easy to use.

Shooting Up Toward the Sky "Gungun"

This shows a sprout popping out of a flowerpot and growing fast toward the sun!

• When you give it water every day, its leaves grow bigger and it grows strong up and up.

• We also use this word when you play hard every day and grow bigger and taller.

Dreamy Stories "Grimm's Fairy Tales"

This is a book full of fun stories loved all over the world since long ago!

• It has famous stories you know well, like "Cinderella" and "Hansel and Gretel."

• Pretty castles, princesses, and witches appear and excite everyone who reads it.

Good Friends "Group"

This is when friends hold hands nicely and make a team together!

• You get together when walking on a trip or making things in the classroom.

• By working together, you can do things that are even more fun than doing them alone.

Easy to See "Graph"

This is a picture that uses bar lengths to clearly show differences in numbers and amounts!

• You can see at a glance which snack is most popular in class and which has the least.

• You will see it in math class too. It is a very handy and cool tool.

Round and Cute "Green Peas"

These are vegetables with small, round beans lined up neatly inside a green pod room!

• They sit nicely on top of soup, fried rice, or dumplings, making them look pretty and colorful.

• They pop in your mouth and fill it with sweet veggie goodness.

Sleeping Soundly "Goo-Goo"

This shows sleeping deeply and comfortably inside a warm futon!

• After running and studying a lot every day, you sleep to save up your power.

• While sleeping soundly with good dreams, your body grows bigger and bigger.

Cold Drink "Glass"

This is a clear cup used for drinking cold water, tea, or juice!

• When you float square ice cubes inside, it makes a cool clinking sound that feels great.

• When light hits it, it sparkles and makes your drink look super yummy.

Choose colors to make the star Hiragana "Gu" stand out the most

The big Hiragana "Gu" in the middle of the coloring page is the main star of this page!

• Pick your favorite bright color that stands out, like red or yellow, from your colored pencils and try coloring it in.

• The trick is to color slowly and carefully so you stay inside the thick black lines around the character.

Jiggling color blend tricks to make "Gummy candies" look yummy

Let's try clever coloring to make the gummies look soft, chewy, and tasty!

• On purpose, leave a tiny bit of the white paper uncolored right in the middle of the bear and ring gummies.

• If you gently layer colors around them, like strawberry red, lemon yellow, or melon green, they will look shiny, jiggling, and delicious.

Secret coloring tips for see-through "Glass" and ice cubes

The secret trick to make glasses and ice look see-through is not coloring the whole thing in!

• Try softly brushing light blue or emerald green only along the outline of the cup and around the square ice cubes inside.

• Leaving the middle white makes it look just like real glass that lets light shine right through!

Leather feel for the "Glove" and 3D shape for the "Glider"

The baseball glove is made of tough leather, and the sky-gliding glider has a cool 3D shape.

• If you layer brown and yellow-ochre over and over on the glove, you can give it the neat look of real leather that has caught tons of balls.

• If you add a little light gray shadow under the glider's wings, it will look super cool floating in the sky with 3D depth!

Using different greens for "Green peas" and "Gungun" (growing fast)

There are lots of spots on this coloring page that use green, like the peas and the flowerpot plants.

• Instead of using the same green for everything, try light yellow-green for the peas and deep green for the garden leaves!

• Color the strong arrows growing fast with bright colors like red or yellow to make the garden look cheerful and full of energy.

The Kanji for Hiragana "Gu" Came From "久"!

The hiragana "ku" came from a kanji character "久" (hisa-shii), which means a long time. People wrote it faster and faster until it changed shape! Hiragana "Gu" is made by adding two dots to that "ku". When you write "久" quickly with a brush, you can see how it turned into the bent shape of "ku" and Hiragana "Gu".

You Can Write It in Just One Stroke! A Very Simple Letter

The main part of Hiragana "Gu", "ku", can be written in just one stroke! It is super easy to draw. Only a few hiragana letters are written in one stroke. Among them, Hiragana "Gu" looks like a letter V lying on its side, making it the cleanest and easiest shape to write.

Gungun, Guruguru! Lots of Energetic Words

Hiragana "Gu" is used in many fun sound-words! You might grow tall "gungun" (fast), wobble "guragura", or spin your eyes "guruguru". Just adding the sound of Hiragana "Gu" makes a word feel strong, powerful, and full of energy!

Tips to Write a Cool Hiragana "Gu"

Here is a secret tip to write a nice and neat Hiragana "Gu"! First, make the middle bend sharp and pointed, not round. Next, put the two dots close together in the top right space. Draw two little slanted dots right next to each other. Now your Hiragana "Gu" looks super cool!