A very large friendly fish with Jonah inside and a small boat on the horizon. One of the few Bible scenes children already know the shape of before you tell it, which makes it a good first page.
Ask whether Jonah was being brave or hiding. He was hiding, and it is one of the few Bible stories where the main character is plainly in the wrong.
Color the fish big. The bigger it looks on the page, the more sense the rest of the story makes.
Drawn for ages 3+, though the age band is a guide rather than a rule. A confident younger child will happily take a page marked older, especially if an adult is coloring alongside them and reading the story aloud. The outlines are deliberately thick and the shapes deliberately large, because the most common reason a child abandons a coloring page is that the spaces are too small for the crayon in their hand.
Press the print button above and it prints the sheet alone, without the menus or this text. If you would rather keep it, use Download PNG and print it later, or take the whole set as one file from the Bible coloring pages hub.
Can I use this in Sunday school or a classroom? Yes. Print as many copies as you need for a class, a church group, a homeschool co-op or a camp. There is no licence to buy and no attribution required, though the page carries our name in the bottom margin so anyone who asks where it came from can find it.
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What paper size does it print on? It is sized for US Letter and prints cleanly on A4 as well, with slightly wider margins. If your printer crops the edges, set scaling to “fit to page” rather than 100 percent.
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A coloring page holds a child for ten minutes and tells you nothing about what they understood. David and Goliath takes about two minutes and ends with a quiz that does — one of 200 episodes covering the whole Bible in order.
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Your child colors it in ten minutes. The video tells them what actually happened in about two — then a quiz shows you what they took in, which a coloring page never can.Jonah and the Big Fish is one of 200 episodes, all in order, Genesis to Revelation.
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