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Make your world more colorful with printable coloring pages from Crayola. Photo courtesy of Crayola
Make your world more colorful with printable coloring pages from Crayola. Photo courtesy of Crayola

Coloring pages are not only a quintessential boredom buster for toddlers; they can also be a creativity launch pad for older kids, who can cut out characters from printable coloring pages to make greeting cards, party decorations, collages, paper dolls, bookmarks, notebook covers, and more. The sky's the limit! 

If you've exhausted your arts and crafts supply and are looking for some fresh coloring pages, we've curated a list of the best resources for downloading free pages at home.

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Free Printable Coloring Pages for Kids

1. Coloring 4 Kids

Perfect for toddlers, these sweet pages cover everything from spaceships to animals to letters. 

2. Coloring Home

My Little Pony, SpongeBob, Peppa Pig, and PJ Masks are just some of the familiar faces you'll find in this large collection of printable coloring pages.

3. Crayola

Access a free library of coloring pages, mazes, and color-by-numbers that includes plants & animals, Thank a Teacher, stegosaurus, and familiar friends like Baby Shark, Trolls, Tinkerbell, and Disney Cars. 


Choose from hundreds of Disney-inspired printable coloring pages, including classic Toy Story pages. 

4. Disney

Know anyone who's obsessed with Disney Princesses, Mickey, Doc McStuffins, or Winnie the Pooh? Disney has plenty of free coloring pages to keep little fans tickled pink.

5. Education.com

Sort by your child's grade and interests to explore a huge database of educational coloring pages and activities.

6. Just Color

Whether your child is into bears or bugs, dogs or dolphins, you'll have plenty of options for coloring the day away.

7. National Geographic Kids

Color favorite pictures of realistic animals from African elephants to kangaroos to gorillas.

Embrace the tune and color these cute Baby Shark faces while learning all sorts of cool facts about sharks. 

8. Nickelodeon

Little fans of Blue's Clues, PAW Patrol, Bubble Guppies, Peppa Pig, or other Nick, Jr. pals will LOVE this array coloring pages, mazes, dot-to-dots, and other activities.

9. Nintendo

Kids will want to trade controllers for crayons when they see these printable pages, including Pokemon, Kirby, and Captain Toad.

10. PBS Kids

PBS has hundreds and hundreds of free printable coloring and activity pages with favorite characters from Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Dinosaur Train, Curious George, Sesame Street, and more.

11. Sesame Street

Toddlers love practicing their fine motor skills with these pages featuring Cookie Monster, Elmo, Abby, and the rest of the Sesame Street gang.


Easy to print Super Coloring has a printable for everyone! 

12. Super Coloring

This enormous selection of free coloring pages includes fantasy creatures, cartoon characters, dinosaurs, planets, and other pages to spark kids' creativity.

13. Thomas and Friends

Fans of the little blue engine will adore this collection of trains to color.

14. Twisty Noodle

Fill a preschooler's day with these coloring pages that teach about letters, numbers, months, colors, and more.

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