Rapunzel Making a Heart With Her Hands coloring page

About this coloring page

Rapunzel heart hands is an extra sweet take on the heroine of Tangled, Disney's 2010 movie. Her story goes back much further, though. The Brothers Grimm published the fairy tale of Rapunzel in Germany in the early 1800s.

In the original tale, a pregnant woman develops a huge craving for a leafy plant growing in her neighbor's garden. The neighbor happens to be a sorceress, and the plant is rampion, called rapunzel in German. The husband sneaks in to steal some, gets caught and, to be forgiven, has to promise the sorceress their baby. That is how the girl ends up named after the plant.

The sorceress locks Rapunzel in a tower with no door. To climb up, she calls for the girl to let down her very long braid. One day a prince hears Rapunzel singing, figures out the trick and climbs up her hair to meet her.

Disney changed plenty. In Tangled, Rapunzel's hair is magic and glows, the villain is Mother Gothel and the prince is swapped for Flynn Rider, a charming thief. Still, the tower, the braid and the dream of seeing the world remain at the heart of the story.

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