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Panda With a Tambourine

A cheerful panda stands in the grass between two bamboo stalks and lifts a tambourine high, as if it is about to start a song.

Smiling panda raising a tambourine while standing on grass between two bamboo stalks, ready to color
Panda With a Tambourine
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A Panda Playing the Tambourine

This panda with a tambourine coloring page shows a smiling giant panda standing on its hind legs on a few tufts of grass. One paw raises a round tambourine with small jingles around its frame, while the other paw rests on its round belly. Big swirled eye patches, rounded ears and an open, happy mouth give the panda a playful look. Two tall bamboo stalks with jointed rings and slender leaves frame the scene on both sides, leaving large open shapes that are easy for small hands to fill.

Facts About Giant Pandas and Tambourines

Giant pandas live in cool, misty bamboo forests high in the mountains of central China. Bamboo makes up about 99 percent of their diet, and an adult can spend 10 to 16 hours a day eating. To grip the stems, a panda uses an enlarged wrist bone that works like an extra thumb. The tambourine is a very old instrument: frame drums much like it were already played in ancient Greece and Rome.

Real-Life Colors for the Panda Scene

  • Panda fur: white head and belly with black ears, eye patches, arms, legs and shoulders
  • Nose: black; open mouth and tongue: soft pink
  • Tambourine frame: natural wood brown, red or bright blue
  • Tambourine jingles: shiny silver or golden brass
  • Bamboo: green or yellow-green stalks with darker rings at the joints
  • Grass: fresh spring green
Questions and answers

Questions and Answers

Why do pandas eat so much bamboo?
Bamboo is low in nutrients, and a panda's digestive system absorbs only a small part of what it eats. To get enough energy, an adult giant panda eats roughly 26 to 84 pounds of bamboo every day.
How does a tambourine make its jingling sound?
Pairs of small metal discs, called jingles or zils, sit in slots around the frame. When the tambourine is shaken or tapped with the palm, the discs knock together and ring.
Where do giant pandas live in the wild?
Wild giant pandas live only in a few mountain ranges of central China, mainly in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. Their forests are cool and damp, with thick bamboo growing beneath taller trees.
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