Tiana Raises a Lantern From Her Boat coloring page

About this coloring page

Tiana with a lantern calls to mind the nighttime scenes in The Princess and the Frog, when Tiana makes her way through the Louisiana bayou. Bayous are slow moving, marshy waterways surrounded by trees, reeds and water plants, and they are a classic part of the landscape in the Deep South.

Bayous are packed with life. Bald cypress trees grow right out of the water and poke knobby roots above the surface, and their branches are often draped in Spanish moss, which hangs down like gray beards. Lily pads and duckweed float on top of the water.

Frogs, turtles, herons, fish and American alligators all make their homes there. That is why the movie features Louis, a trumpet playing alligator, and Ray, a firefly who lights the way for Tiana and Naveen while they are stuck as frogs.

Louisiana's wetlands do important work for nature. They slow down floods, filter water and shelter countless species. Today, visitors explore them on flat bottomed boats and swamp tours to see this one of a kind landscape up close, especially around sunset, when the fireflies start to glow.

• tiana
• disney princess
• bayou
• butterflies