Flower Coloring Pages (Free Printable PDFs)

What’s in this flower coloring collection

You get 23 original flower coloring pages, all drawn in one cute, easy style with thick outlines, round petals and plenty of smiling faces. Sunflowers, tulips, roses and daisies show up the most. Lavender, a poppy, a lotus, a cherry blossom and a hibiscus make smaller appearances, and six garden friends drop by.

Hi, I’m Niks. Last spring my niece colored a tulip bright blue and asked me if blue tulips are real. I had no idea. (They aren’t, though some purples come close.) That question is why this page tells you which flowers are drawn and what colors they come in. Grab pages one at a time, or the whole set in one PDF.

Which flowers are on these pages, and what colors are they?

Every flower in this set is real, apart from a few made-up kawaii ones. Here’s what each one looks like in a garden, so kids can pick true colors or go wild on purpose.

Short on time? The Six Cute Flowers Sheet alone has six of the nine.

Our favorite flower coloring pages

Smiling Sunflower in a Flower Pot

One big sunflower with a happy face, two leaves and a striped pot, with hearts and sparkles around it. I print it first for any new kid at the table.

Tulips in a Watering Can

Four tulips sit in a smiling watering can covered in polka dots and little hearts. Kids love giving every dot its own color.

Flower with Roots in the Soil

A smiling five-petal flower grows out of a mound of soil with its roots showing. Only 15 spaces, the easiest page in the set, and a neat way to talk about how plants drink.

Wildflowers in a Mason Jar

Daisies, a poppy, a dark-centered flower and lavender sprigs in a glass jar with a bow. Leave the jar white with a pale blue edge and it reads as glass.

Flower Garden by a Picket Fence

Two smiling sunflowers, two tulips and four daisies grow by a picket fence under a sun, clouds and a butterfly. At 105 spaces, it fills a long afternoon.

I Love You Mom Flowers

Bubble letters spell I LOVE YOU MOM over a tied bunch of tulips and a rose, two more roses and a smiling heart. Fold it in half and it’s a Mother’s Day card.

Which flower coloring page is right for your child?

Pick by spaces to color: fewer spaces suit younger hands. The style never changes, so that number is the real difference.

Cute flower coloring pages with garden friends

Six pages pair a flower with a small animal: a bee, a ladybug, a snail, a butterfly, a frog and a bunny. These are the cute flower coloring pages to reach for when a child says flowers are boring.

My trick: color the animal first. A red ladybug or a yellow bee sets the mood, and the flower colors fall into place.

Flower coloring sheets: sixes and nines

Three pages are sheets of small drawings. The Six Cute Flowers Sheet puts six kinds of flowers side by side, Six Potted Flowers gives each one its own decorated pot, and Flower Shapes to Color and Cut Out has nine shapes spaced apart for scissors. String the cut-outs on yarn for a spring garland.

Flower coloring pages for adults

These are bold, easy pages, not detailed ones. A few still make a calm evening page: Bloom Lettering in a Ring of Flowers (167 spaces), the Daisy Pattern (133), the Flower Bouquet with a Ribbon Bow (102) and the Round Wreath of Roses and Leaves (64). Choose three soft colors, like blush, butter yellow and sage, and repeat them.

How to color flower pages: 6 tips

1. Darken toward the middle

Real petals are often deeper near the center. Color each petal light, then press harder at the base.

2. Keep daisies white

Color the yellow center, shade the petal edges pale gray or lavender, and color the background instead.

3. Follow the rose swirl

Pick one color for a rose and trace along its spiral with a darker shade of that color. Now the swirl reads as folded petals, not a snail shell.

4. Use two greens

One green looks flat. Use yellow-green for leaves and blue-green for stems.

5. Repeat colors on patterns

On the Tulip Pattern and Daisy Pattern, choose three colors and rotate them across each row. The page looks planned instead of busy.

6. Match the tool to the child

Chunky crayons for toddlers, colored pencils for the patterns inside petals and pots, markers on heavier paper for bold color.

A little flower science to share while you color

True facts for the coloring table:

1. A sunflower head is made of hundreds of tiny flowers packed together, called florets.
2. The name daisy comes from the Old English for “day’s eye,” because the flower opens in the morning and closes at night.
3. Young sunflowers turn to follow the sun across the sky. Grown ones mostly stay facing east.
4. Tulip bulbs were so prized in the 1600s Netherlands that the craze got its own name: tulip mania.
5. Water beads up and rolls right off lotus leaves, which keeps them clean.
6. Bees can see ultraviolet light, so many flowers have patterns that guide bees to the nectar but that we can’t see.

Flower classroom and craft ideas

A few weeks ago I brought a stack of these to a library story hour. By the end, two kids were arguing about whether roses can be green. Most of these ideas came out of that afternoon:

• Real or rainbow? Kids color one page in real colors from the flower table and one in any colors they like, then say which they prefer.
• Parts of a flower. Label the petals, stem, leaves and roots on the Flower with Roots in the Soil.
• Counting. The Tulip Pattern has sixteen tulips in four rows of four, the Daisy Pattern nine in three rows of three. Count by rows, then multiply.
• Seed to bouquet story. Line up the Flower with Roots in the Soil, Happy Bee Visiting Daisies, Tulips in a Watering Can and the Flower Bouquet with a Ribbon Bow, and tell how a garden grows.
• A spring coloring book. Staple the all-pages PDF into a book, or hand out one flower a day.

Our free classroom license explains what you can print.

Printing tips for the best results

• Print the whole set at once. The all-pages PDF is a free 23-page flower coloring book.
• Print in black and white with “Fit to page.” It’s pure line art.
• Use light cardstock for cards and garlands. It holds up to markers.

How I made and checked these pages

Every one of these flower coloring pages is an original ColorTheDay design, checked before it went live: bold, closed outlines, simple enough for a preschooler, and a title that says exactly what’s drawn. Thirteen pages were redrawn at least once, and two that never came right were cut. The flower notes are my own, and the “spaces to color” numbers are counted, not guessed.

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