The Orange County Chapter of the California Native Plant Society (OCCNPS) produced this coloring book for people of all ages. Enjoy using paints, markers, crayons, and colored pencils to finish fun pictures of your favorite plants and animals. Each hand-drawn illustration is combined with a Fun Fact that tells the story of how animals, butterflies, birds, and bees depend on California native plants for food and shelter.
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Sample Page – Toyon and Cedar Wax Wing
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Sample Page – Hummingbird Sage
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Example of How You can Color a Page
Bees in CA Poppy
Illustrator Emyle Rogers
Emyle Rogers is a Southern California-based artist and environmentalist. Translating a variety of artistic skills through numerous media and projects, their work focuses on California indigenous habitats, ethnobotany, and seasonality. You can find the artist on social media under the name @chamemyle.
Scientific names for native plants illustrated in this book can be found here.
For kindergarten through fifth grade children, this coloring book can be a useful aid for learning concepts found in the California Next Generation Life Science Standards. Go to this link for more information. For all ages, this book has interesting facts about our local nature.
