100 Sweet Treats Coloring Pages

Coloring page story

Young Thomas was an apprentice at The Sugared Spoon bakery. His hands, always smudged with flour, were usually clumsy. This Christmas, he was tasked with making the centerpiece for the town festival display: a giant, perfect, sugar-dusted “Starlight Cookie.”

He tried once. The dough spread too much and looked like a starfish. SPLAT. He tried twice. He burned the edges to a charcoal black. PFFFT. He tried a third time, his boss, Mrs. Gable, watching with a worried frown. This one was perfect… until he tripped, sending it flying. CRASH! It shattered on the floor.

“I’m a disaster!” Thomas wailed, sinking onto a flour sack.

Mrs. Gable sighed, then looked out the bakery window at the evening sky, where the real Christmas Star was beginning to glow. “Thomas,” she said kindly. “The star up there isn't perfect because it's a perfect shape. It’s perfect because its light reaches us. It’s about the journey.”

She handed him the bag of broken cookie pieces. “There is no time to make another. But we have this.”

An idea sparked in Thomas’s mind. Working quickly, he and Mrs. Gable took all the broken pieces, large and small. They arranged them on a huge platter, dusting them with shimmering edible glitter. They didn't make one big star. They made a whole galaxy of little, broken, beautiful stars.

At the festival, people gasped. “It’s not one star,” a child said with awe. “It’s all of them!” It was the most popular display. Thomas learned that sometimes, our biggest mistakes can be baked into our greatest triumphs.

Coloring page Age Appropriateness

The intricate detail of coloring dozens of small cookies is a perfect challenge for the fine motor skills and patience of the 9-12 age group. They will enjoy the repetitive but creative task of decorating each cookie differently. The theme of making something beautiful from a mistake is also a valuable lesson for this age.

Coloring Page Coloring Instructions

Wow, look at all those cookies! This is your very own cookie galaxy to decorate. You can make every single star a different color, or you could create a pattern of reds, greens, and whites for Christmas. Try using sparkly gel pens for the little glitter dots to make them really shine. What color apron are Thomas and Mrs. Gable wearing? It's all up to you, master baker!

Coloring Page Printing Tips

Hello bakers and artists! This page is very detailed. To ensure every little cookie outline is crisp, print this using your printer's 'best quality' setting. This is a great page to spend a long time on, so using good quality paper will help it hold up to lots of coloring. It might be fun to put on some holiday music while working on this masterpiece!

Recommended Tools

This page is begging for fine-tip markers or a freshly sharpened set of colored pencils. These tools will allow your artist to get into all the small spaces and color each cookie with precision. Glitter pens or metallic markers would be the perfect finishing touch for the 'edible glitter' and to make the whole platter sparkle and shine.