Coloring pages by theme

Standing, sitting, wearing a crown, outside their house — and a whole castle. Drawings with big open spaces: the mane is made to be colored in as many colors as you like.

The turtle, the rabbit, the deer, the elephant, the hen, the owl, the cat, the wolf. One animal per sheet, drawn big, with no background — what works best before age 3. Look at their foreheads: most of them wear a little spiral horn.

The ladybug, the snail, the butterfly, the spider. The little creatures children catch in the garden, drawn round and friendly.

The sailboat, the little bridge, the windmill, the beach. Whole scenes to fill in, with lots of sky and lots of water — the two biggest areas on any page.

Presents, a clown, unicorns on stage. The sheets to bring out on a birthday, when six children need something to do around one table.

The classroom, the playground, the school bag. The pages to color the day before the first day of school.

Millers and windmills, shepherdesses, little bridges, round dances. These scenes come from the French nursery-rhyme tradition our studio draws from — no words on the page, just the storybook world they belong to.

Princesses, their castles, their carriages — and the unicorns that come with them. A frilled dress and a battlemented tower fill a page in opposite ways: one by its little folds, the other by its great flat walls.

The cow, the pig, the hen and her chicks, the lamb, the donkey. The barn, the tractor and the straw bales. Animals a child has often seen for real, and recognizes without being told their name.

The rocket, the astronaut, the planets, the shuttle, the flying saucer. Lots of dark sky around them — which is exactly what makes these sheets easy: the background goes down in one sweep, and the stars are simply left white.

The race car, the fire truck, the excavator, the bus, the tractor. Broad shapes and few details: these are the sheets to hand a child who says they do not like coloring.

Dresses, shoes, bags, the jewelry box, the sewing box. Plenty of small areas to fill, and nothing that calls for one color over another: this is the aisle where you try things.

The little superhero and his dragon: the training, the flight, the toy battle, the pizza, the night. The sheets follow each other like a story — spread on the table, they tell it in whatever order you like.

Flowers, trees, autumn leaves, mushrooms and rainbows. The garden you plant, water and rake. These are the sheets with large repeated shapes — a canopy, a flower bed, a field of tulips: pick two greens and stop thinking.

The swing, the sandpit, the roundabout, the bandstand, the pond and its bench — and the games you only play outdoors: the kite, the frisbee, the water fight. The playground down the road, drawn whole: the scenery a child recognizes fastest.

The checkered blanket, the basket, the watermelon, the ice creams, the line of ants coming to help themselves. The blanket is the best background on the site: a whole grid to fill square by square, under a drawing that finishes quickly.

The snowman, the sled, the skates, the chairlift, the igloo and the penguins. Sheets where the background stays white and everything happens on the hats, the scarves and the mittens — the opposite of a page to fill in completely.

The bedroom, the living room, the kitchen, the bathroom — and the house seen from outside, with its door and its garden. Putting the toys away, making the bed, laying the table: what a child sees every day, and already knows the colors of. The snail’s little shell is here too.

Mom, dad and the children — a hug, a bedtime story, a first bike ride. And every other family, the four-legged ones: the turtles, the foxes, the polar bears, the seals. These are the sheets a child recognizes before they can read, because they are in them.

All 26 letters, one per sheet: the capital drawn big, the lowercase below. Thick, hollow letters made to be filled in — not thin outlines.

From 1 to 10. The number drawn big, and exactly that many things to count below it: three flowers for the 3, nine hearts for the 9. The count is right on every sheet.

The circle, the square, the triangle, the rectangle, the star, the heart, the diamond, the oval. Each one drawn big, then three times small — a shape stays itself at every size.

The rainbow, the color chart, the balloons, the paint pots. The name of each color is written inside the area to fill.