Hello! After nearly four years of sketching cute drawings on this site nearly every day when I get home from my teaching job, I have a treat for you. It’s time for a round-up of cute coloring pages in the form of free printable sheets — a perfect relaxing art activity for kids AND adults.
As background, I’m an artist and teacher named Ms. Marshall, and I love sharing easy drawing ideas with readers from around the world. I hand-draw every single illustration on this site, with love. Ready for the printables? Let’s go!
Cute Coloring Pages
Looking for free cute coloring pages on all different topics? Here are printable sheets about everything from animals to food and holidays!
Animal Coloring Pages
These four free printables feature twelve animals to color in, including a frog, bat, spider, sheep, octopus, llama, bunny, starfish, bird, snail, turkey, and more.
For ideas on what colors to use, check out my inked-in cute animal drawings -- or just choose your own hues!
Food Coloring Pages
I hope you're hungry, because these eight cute foods are ready to be printed out and colored in. We've got cherries, candy, a mushroom and pumpkin, veggies like broccoli and carrots, a peach and pear, and more.
To see how I chose to color them, saunter on over to my cute food drawings round-up -- but remember that carrots used to be purple, so really the sky is the limit with your color choices.
Fantasy Coloring Pages
Are you into magic, dragons, princesses, and unique creatures? These fantasy coloring printables are for you! For further inspiration, browse my mermaid tail drawing ideas for colors.
Dress Coloring Pages
Love fun fashion and pretty dresses? These adorable dress coloring pages offer tons of opportunities to color in the cutest -- or most wild -- outfits imaginable.
Hat Coloring Pages
Keep the fashionable fun going and ink in some exciting hues and patterns to these printable sheets of different kinds of hats.
Halloween Coloring Pages
Ready to celebrate spooky season? Even if it's not October 31, these Halloween coloring pages will bring a smile. These two printable sheets feature eight not-too-scary autumn friends, including: a witch, pumpkin, bat, spider, vampire, candy, spider web, and friendly ghost.
For inspiration on what colors to use, check out my colored-in Halloween drawings.
Christmas Coloring Pages
As we get towards December 25, festive holiday art activities like these Christmas coloring pages are perfect! These three printable pages feature twelve jolly friends, including: Santa, a stocking, a wreath, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, a candy cane, a Christmas tree, an ornament, a candle, a Santa hat, a present, holly, and a snowman.
To get your creative thoughts flowing, check out my colored in Christmas drawings for ideas.
Pi Day Printable Cards
Enjoy math? Pi Day is March 14 (3/14, which is like 3.14...), and this free printable activity helps you create and color in "Pi-lentines" -- cards to celebrate Pi Day with funny puns!
Mermaid Coloring Pages
Underwater fun is just a click away with these bubbly mermaids and underwater creatures! This printable features two pages and eight illustrations.
Weather Coloring Pages
From rain clouds to wind and umbrellas, these cute cartoon weather illustrations will keep you entertained, even when it's stormy outside. These coloring pages span two pages and have five illustrations.
Graduation Coloring Pages
Looking for free printable sheets to color for graduation season? Here are two pages: One with this happy grad message, and another focusing on a classic mortarboard cap.
St. Patrick's Day Coloring Pages
From a joyful leprechaun to a welcoming shamrock drawing, these St. Patrick's Day printables will bring the green cheer.
Easter Coloring Pages
Have fun coloring in these cute Easter egg printables -- either in traditional pastels, or in bright and wild colors!
How to Use these Free Printable Coloring Sheets
There are all sorts of ways you can use these printables. They can be simple coloring sheets, or you can use scissors and tape to turn them into cards or decorations. For example, the cute mushroom drawing can be pasted onto thicker paper with the message, “Thanks for being a FUN GUY!” (haha, get the pun on “fungi?”) and then it can be handed to a loved one to brighten their day.
Terms of Use and Copyright
Just a quick reminder about the terms of use of these printable coloring sheets. It is perfectly fine to make xeroxed copies of the print-outs for personal use, such as coloring time with your kids and family, or with your students or class if you’re a teacher (like me!), or at a small educational event. For example, feel free to use the Christmas coloring pages at your next holiday gathering!
That said, please follow copyright law and kind courtesy and refrain from putting these images on other websites, or selling them for profit. Whenever possible, please share where the printables are from, and feel free to refer others to check out the site!
Is the Spelling “Colouring Pages?”
As an English teacher in addition to being an artist, I feel compelled to give a quick language lesson about whether the spelling is “coloring” with an “or,” versus “colouring pages” with an “our.” If you pop over to my “coloring or colouring?” lesson, you’ll see that the “or” spelling is correct for American English (and the other countries that use U.S. conventions), while the “our” spelling is for British English (and the various locales that use it, such as Canada and Australia). May that clear up some confusion!
Cute Coloring Pages, in Sum
I hope this round-up of cute coloring pages — free printable sheets — make for a relaxing, easy, and fun creative art activity for you and those around you! What other creative drawings would you like me to illustrate and offer next? Do share!
The author and artist, Lillie Marshall, is a National Board Certified Teacher of English who has been a public school educator since 2003, and an experienced Reiki practitioner since 2018. All art on this site is original and hand-drawn by Lillie. She launched DrawingsOf.com Educational Cartoons in 2020, building upon the success of her other sites, AroundTheWorldL.com (established 2009), TeachingTraveling.com (founded 2010), and ReikiColors.com. Subscribe to Lillie’s monthly newsletter, and follow @WorldLillie on social media to stay connected!