If you’re reading this, you probably share a house with someone who yells “Let’s dive in!” right before cannonballing into the bathtub. Zuma does that to people.
These Zuma PAW Patrol coloring pages follow the water rescue pup through a tide pool, a beach barbecue, a pumpkin costume and one very rude crab. Some scenes are calm. Others involve a hovercraft and a lot of spray.
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Check his face before you pick, because it goes from blissed-out to full alarm depending on the page. My guess is the crab one disappears off the printer tray first in most houses… can’t say I blame anybody.
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That little bow on Zuma’s ear makes me smile. He looks quite pleased with his coconut drink! I’d go for a pink bow and a splash of turquoise around him, though I suspect the kids will have much bolder ideas.
Zuma’s soggy superhero cape makes me giggle, since saving the day over the waves clearly comes with a splash or two! I’d reach for bright orange for his suit and a handful of blues for that big, splashy sea.
I love Zuma’s determined little face as he helps this baby turtle out of a tangled net. He takes even the tiniest rescue seriously! I’d reach for a bright orange crayon for his gear and let the kids dream up a lovely green shell for his new friend.
I love how Zuma has his arms stretched wide and that thrilled little face as he rides the giant wave. He looks like he’s having the best day ever! I’d leave a few white patches in the blue water for splashy sea foam, though a rainbow wave would be pretty fun too.
Zuma’s pirate hat makes me smile as he steers his little toy ship through that sparkling cove. He looks ready to hunt for biscuit treasure! I’d leave a few sparkles white and let the kids pick the wildest colors they can find for his boat.
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Dressed as a Pumpkin Trick-or-Treating
A round pumpkin costume covers most of Zuma, with ridges curving down the sides and a stem cap with a single leaf on his head. In his mouth hangs a jack-o’-lantern treat bucket. Out on the rocks behind him, a lighthouse keeps watch.
Trick-or-treating along the shore is a very Zuma choice… where else would he go? That costume is one giant round shape, exactly what Lily, my three-year-old, attacks with an orange marker before I’ve even pushed her chair in.
Driving His Hovercraft
Has any pup ever looked happier at work? Grinning ear to ear, Zuma steers his hovercraft over the waves in his helmet, with the big caged fan at the back doing all the pushing.
Puffy ribbed panels wrap the bottom of the craft, and a few clouds hang over the water. Vehicle kids will pick this one over every other page, and I’ve stopped arguing with that crowd.
Diving in Scuba Gear
This is the busiest page of the bunch, I think. Down in the water, Zuma swims in his dive mask and pup pack while small fish circle him, one of them striped, and bubbles rise past a tall strand of seaweed and a clump of coral.
Of all the Zuma from PAW Patrol coloring pages here, it’s the one I’d hand to second graders and up. Count the fish first. Then color.
Splashing Through a Tide Pool
Somewhere in the shallows a starfish found Zuma’s nose and decided to stay. His eyes roll up toward it while water sprays around his front paws, and a few shells and a bit of coral sit at the edge of the pool.
He’s off duty here, no helmet or gear, just a soggy pup and his new passenger. Whether the starfish enjoys the ride is anyone’s guess.
Startled by a Crab
The crab started it. Clamped onto the end of Zuma’s tail is a tiny crab, and Zuma whips around wide-eyed with a stretched grimace, helmet and pup pack still on.
Palm tree, sand, calm sea… and one very bad moment. Classrooms love it as a reward page at the end of a long Friday, because the giggles start before the crayons come out.
Grilling Fish in a Chef Hat
For once the helmet is off, swapped for a tall chef hat. At a round kettle grill he stands over fish laid across the grate, with smoke curling up in loose loops and a palm tree leaning in from behind.
What do the fish think of this? Perhaps don’t hang it right next to the crab page. Summer cookouts, family reunions, end-of-year class parties, it fits all three.
Shaking Water off His Fur
You know the moment. Dog climbs out of the lake, walks right up to you, plants all four feet and…
Here it is. Zuma’s eyes are squeezed shut and his ears are flapping, with droplets flying in every direction around a very satisfied grin. Hardly any background, so toddlers get big open shapes and nothing fiddly.
Painting a Seashell in a Beach Hut
Not every page needs a splash. Inside a little beach hut, Zuma dabs at a scallop shell with a tiny brush, with a palette of paint dots on the table beside him and a life ring hanging on the wall.
Quiet pages earn their keep during indoor recess. Got a bag of real shells left over from summer? Set a few on the desks next to this one.
8 Tips for Coloring Zuma PAW Patrol
1. Mix a Real Chocolate for His Fur
Ask anybody who’s stood in the hair dye aisle, or better, ask an actual hairdresser. Any box marked “chocolate brown” is never just brown. There’s red hiding in it, and Zuma’s chocolate Labrador coat works the same way.
So skip the darkest crayon in the box. Color his fur in a medium brown pencil, then go over it once, lightly, with brick red. Fun fact for the older crowd: two black Labs can have a chocolate puppy, because the chocolate gene can hide for a generation.
2. Live Crabs Are Rarely Red
Most of us picture crabs as bright red. But that red mostly shows up after cooking, and the little crabs scuttling around real beaches tend to be sandy, gray-green or brown. Realistic, then, would be a sand-colored crab, though it’ll vanish into the beach.
Compromise works here. Sand tan for the shell, then sharp coral orange on just the claw clamped to Zuma’s tail. Labs have what breeders call an otter tail, thick at the base and used like a rudder when they swim. Seems the crab noticed.
3. Tint the Snorkel Mask Glass
Old photographers screwed tinted glass filters onto their lenses to wash a whole shot in one color. Picture Zuma’s snorkel mask on the pool page doing exactly that to his face.
Finish the fur around his eyes first. After that, sweep a very pale blue pencil across only the area inside the mask frame, barely touching the paper, and the glass shows up out of nowhere. Works on the scuba page too.
4. Blur the Hovercraft Fan
Spinning fans don’t show their blades, only a haze. Rather than coloring each blade inside that big cage on the hovercraft page, scribble light circles of one color across the whole disc and keep the cage bars crisp in gray pencil.
Funny origin on the real machine, too. Christopher Cockerell, a British engineer, tested his idea in the 1950s with a cat food tin inside a coffee tin and an air blower. Adventure Bay’s version is orange, naturally, and rides the same trapped cushion of air.
5. Light Up the Jack-o’-Lantern Bucket
Before pumpkins, there were turnips. Irish families carved faces into turnips and potatoes for Samhain, and immigrants in America switched to pumpkins, which were bigger and much easier to hollow out.
On Zuma’s treat bucket, fill the carved eyes and mouth with yellow marker, then run orange crayon just around the inside edge of each hole so the light seems to fade where it meets the pumpkin wall. Leave his costume a calmer, paler orange and the bucket becomes the brightest thing on the shore.
6. Give the Starfish Its Eyes
Plenty of adults miss this, but a sea star has a tiny eye at the tip of every arm. It can’t see much, just light, dark and big blurry shapes, but it uses them to find its way home to the reef.
Give the starfish on the tide pool page a bold pinky orange, then press one dark dot onto the end of each arm with a sharp pencil. Speckle the rest with lighter dots for that pebbly skin. Now it’s looking right back at Zuma, which is only fair.
7. Let the Bubbles Grow
Bubbles get bigger as they rise. Water pressure drops toward the surface, so the air inside expands, and divers watch their own exhale balloon on the way up.
Use that on the underwater coloring sheets of Zuma PAW Patrol, the snorkel page and the scuba page. Fill the tiniest bubbles solid with a light aqua pencil, then leave a little more white in each bigger one until the top bubbles are just outlined.
8. Invent the Lighthouse’s Pattern
Real lighthouses wear daymarks, painted stripes, spirals or checks that let sailors tell one tower from another in daylight. Cape Hatteras in North Carolina got a black and white spiral, for one.
Two of these printable PAW Patrol Zuma coloring pages have a lighthouse, the pumpkin page and the jet ski at sunset, and nobody has told us what pattern it wears. Let your kid decide. Stripes, zigzags, polka dots… sailors would figure it out.