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Mermaid and Jellyfish Drawing

MediumAges 6+15

Free PDF coloring page to print or download.

Two creatures and one of them is see through, which is the interesting problem on this sheet: the jellyfish only reads as jelly if it stays paler than everything behind it. Leave it almost white and color the water nothing at all. The tentacles are long single lines that want one confident pull each. This underwater mermaid coloring page suits six and up. The starfish is simpler company.

Mermaid swimming underwater beside a jellyfish with long trailing tentacles and bubbles all around them

A mermaid swimming beside a drifting jellyfish.

Mermaid and Jellyfish: how to draw it step by step

Here is mermaid and jellyfish in 8 steps.

1

Draw the mermaid swimming across the page, body first.

2

Add the head and the hair streaming behind her.

3

Curve the tail up behind and spread the fin.

4

Draw the jellyfish bell beside her, a rounded dome.

5

Add the frill around the rim of the bell.

6

Pull the long tentacles down in single curving lines.

7

Scatter bubbles around them both.

8

Finish with the scales on the tail.

What you need

Paper, a pencil and an eraser.