On top of a flat, wide ice floe stands a small, smiling penguin, while right below, a big, round, friendly submarine with a waving kid in the window dives right underneath, along with three air bubbles and a small fish. Our ice floe submarine coloring page captures exactly this special meeting between ice and the deep, and you can print it for free right away.
Why This Design Connects Two Worlds at Once
With the penguin up on the ice and the submarine right below it, this design captures two completely different worlds in a single glance. The big, flat ice floe and the round submarine offer plenty of room for an especially exciting coloring experience.
Like a thick pancake
Standing on the ice
Diving right below
In the round window
🖨️ Step-by-Step: How to Print Perfectly
Click "Print Now" and set your printer to black & white to save ink!
Use thicker paper (100–120gsm) for markers so colors don't bleed through
A quiet spot with good light — a washable tablecloth is gold for little artists!
Think together about how much of an ice floe is really hiding underwater!
🌊 Fun Facts About How Much Ice Hides Beneath the Surface
While your child colors, now is the perfect moment for a little story: as our submarine dives beneath the ice floe, it actually sees far more of it than the little penguin standing up on top ever could. Ice is solid, but it's only a tiny bit lighter than liquid water, which is why it floats on the sea while also reaching down surprisingly deep at the same time. With a real ice floe or iceberg, usually only a small part, often just about one-tenth of the whole mass of ice, actually pokes up out of the water, while the much bigger remaining part, roughly nine-tenths, stays hidden deep below the surface. That's exactly where the well-known phrase "the tip of the iceberg" comes from, used whenever someone means that they only know a small, visible part of something, while the much bigger part stays hidden. Our submarine, diving under the ice floe, gets a very special view of exactly what stays completely invisible to the little penguin up above. Anyone wanting to learn more about this fascinating natural phenomenon can explore the Wikipedia article on icebergs together.
🎨 Creative Tip: What to Do With the Finished Picture?
Finished coloring the picture? Tell someone about "the tip of the iceberg," and talk together about what the penguin might think if it knew just how much ice is really hidden beneath it! ✂️
🎨 Which Colors Suit the Ice Floe Submarine?
For this wintery design, cool ice tones with bold accents work especially well. Here are our favorite color ideas for little artists:
For the ice floe
For the submarine
For the penguin
For the kid's clothes
💡 Coloring Technique Tip: Color the ice floe a very pale blue with white highlights — that makes it look especially cold and smooth.
📅 When Is This Coloring Page Perfect For?
This design is a real all-rounder — here are our favorite occasions:
A wintery design for the party
Perfect for a topic about ice and cold
Fits the cold season
A wintery coloring project
🌊 Fun Facts About Icebergs and Ice Floes for Kids
While your child colors, you can read these facts aloud — kids love polar knowledge!
The rest hides underwater
A well-known phrase
Than liquid water
Without seeing what's hidden
⚓ Discover More From the World of People & Vehicles Underwater!
The ice floe submarine is part of our new collection all about explorers and vehicles underwater! Combine all the coloring pages in this series and create your very own underwater adventures:
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🏫 Ideas for Preschool, School, and Home
This design works wonderfully as a starting point for small projects about ice, polar regions, and hidden things. In preschool, the picture pairs beautifully with a little ice-cube experiment, where kids watch how the ice floats in water. In elementary school, this design makes a great introduction to a topic about icebergs and the phrase "the tip of the iceberg," while at home it serves as an occasion to learn more about penguins and life in cold regions together.
An ice-cube experiment to observe
An intro to icebergs
Learning about penguins and polar regions
🧊 What the Ice Floe Submarine Teaches Us About Hidden Depth
The fact that so much more can be hiding beneath a seemingly small ice floe than what we see at first glance shows kids, in a particularly striking way, that we can't always tell everything from a single look. Just like with the ice floe submarine, it's worth sometimes looking more closely, or even diving deeper, to understand just how big something really is.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What age is this coloring page suitable for?
The ice floe submarine works for kids of all ages — the clear, rounded shapes suit every age group well.
Is the download free?
Yes, all coloring pages on PureSketchy are 100% free for personal use, preschools, and schools.
Which coloring tools work best?
For the ice floe, we recommend soft ice blue; for the submarine, bold red.
Why does only a small part of an iceberg stick out of the water?
Because ice is only slightly lighter than water, so most of it, often around nine-tenths, sinks below the surface.
Is there a German/English version?
Yes! You can find the German version at Ausmalbild U-Boot taucht unter einer Eisscholle hindurch.