Nature Coloring Pages

About Our Nature Coloring Pages

Nature is the subject children already draw on their own: a sun in the corner, a flower in the grass, a rainbow over a house. Our nature coloring pages take those favourites and draw them big and bold, paired with short, kid-friendly facts about how each one grows, forms or shines. Most subjects below have eight designs, ordered from a chunky toddler outline to a detailed scene for older children, and all of them print on standard letter paper for free. If you want a little of everything on one page, the mixed nature coloring page collects a rainbow, a sun and clouds, a mountain, toadstools, a cactus, a sunflower, an ocean wave and a tree in a single set.

A Tour of the Collection

Flowers are the easiest place to begin, because a bloom is a circle with petals and almost any colour looks right on it. The flower coloring pages put eight favourites side by side, from a simple daisy for toddlers to a sunflower with a criss-cross seed head, the rose sheets follow one flower from a single bud on a stem to an ornate bloom with curled petals and thorns, and the sunflower pages run from a smiling cartoon bloom to a seed head packed with hundreds of seeds. For the simplest bloom of all, the daisy coloring pages go from a smiling cartoon daisy with big round petals to a bloom with long slender petals around a centre full of tiny florets. For something tropical, the hibiscus sheets start with a single front-facing bloom and finish with a flower whose ruffled petals crinkle at the edges. And when one flower is not enough, the bouquet coloring pages gather roses, daisies, tulips and sunflowers into a vase, a teacup, a basket or a heart, ready to color for a Mother's Day or thank-you card.

Plants and trees suit a growing-things lesson, from a single leaf to a whole canopy. The tree coloring pages start with a palm on a little island and a tall pine, then work through a bonsai, an apple tree and a tree in blossom to a weeping willow and a spreading oak hung with acorns. For beaches and islands, the palm tree coloring pages go from a short smiling palm on a grassy island to a coconut palm, a fan palm and a feathery palm with a criss-cross trunk. And for the windowsill, the plant coloring pages run from a seedling sprouting in a pot through a succulent, a smiling cactus and a monstera to a fern spilling out of a hanging basket. Up close, the leaf coloring pages set maple and oak leaves, ginkgo fans and climbing ivy side by side and finish with a heap of overlapping autumn leaves. Out in the desert, the cactus coloring pages begin with a smiling round cactus in a pot and grow into a ribbed saguaro, a prickly pear hung with fruit and a barrel cactus crowned with flowers. And the garden coloring pages bring it all together, from a bed of smiling flowers and a Japanese rock garden to raised vegetable beds, an orchard of apple and pear trees and a thatched cottage garden full of roses, sunflowers and pumpkins.

Sky and weather pages cover what children see when they look up: the sun, the moon, the stars and the weather in between. The sun coloring pages start with a sleepy sun with its eyes closed and a laughing one, add floating hearts, flying sparks and a wink, and finish with a sun whose rays are filled with swirls and curls. When the sun goes down, the moon coloring pages take over, from a big smiling full moon and a crescent fast asleep to a sleepy moon in a striped nightcap and a winking full moon covered in craters. Once it is properly dark, the star coloring pages fill in the rest of the night sky, from a plain five-pointed star and a puffy rounded one to friendly stars with faces, arms and swirling streamers and an eight-pointed star packed with geometric patterns. For the moment the sun comes out during a shower, the rainbow coloring pages run from a plain four-stripe arch and a smiling rainbow on fluffy clouds to a wavy ribbon, a rainbow built from bricks and one that curls round into a spiral. Between the sunshine and the showers sit the clouds, and the cloud coloring pages go from a smiling cloud with heart-shaped cheeks and a sleepy one to a rain cloud dropping raindrops, a cloud in a polka-dot party hat and a big layered cumulus with no face at all. And when the clouds finally open, the rain coloring pages bring the showers indoors, from a waving raindrop and a shy cloud in a rain hat to a child jumping for joy in the rain and a girl in a hooded raincoat. When the air turns cold enough for snow, the snowflake coloring pages show what every snow crystal has in common, from a chunky six-sided snowflake with big open spaces and a smiling one with rosy cheeks to a snowflake made of hearts, a classic six-pointed star and a fine, feathery dendrite covered in tiny branches. And the weather coloring pages gather the whole group onto one set for a classroom weather chart, from a smiling rain cloud and a rainbow resting on two clouds to a storm cloud with a lightning bolt, a four seasons wheel and a puffing cloud blowing a gust of autumn leaves. For the wildest weather of all, the tornado coloring pages turn a spinning funnel into something friendly, from a sleepy smiling twister and a bubbly coil under a cloud to a tall corkscrew funnel and a swirl of stars beneath a storm cloud.

Landscapes finish the list with bigger scenes that give a child a whole picture to fill. The mountain coloring pages start the climb with a gentle rolling hill and three snow-capped peaks, add a smoking volcano and a smiling mountain waving hello, and finish with a stepped mountain carved with staircases and a crowd of jagged rocky spires. When one of those mountains starts to rumble, the volcano sheets take over, from a low, wide cone with a single puff of smoke and a smiling volcano blowing bubbles to a river of lava pouring down one side and a rocky eruption ringed with boulders. To step back and take in the whole view, the landscape coloring pages fill a page with a complete scene, from a barn on rolling hills and bare winter trees on snowy slopes to a river winding through a mountain valley, a desert of giant saguaros and a thatched cottage in a meadow of wildflowers. Step in among the trees and the forest coloring pages take over, from a simple grove of round treetops and a smiling wood full of toadstools to a hollow log in the ferns and a forest floor crowded with curling fiddleheads. Where the trees stay warm and wet all year, the rainforest coloring pages head into the jungle, from giant lily pads on a slow river and a passion flower vine to a mossy branch crowded with orchids and a canopy hung with looping vines. Down at the water's edge, the seashell coloring pages collect what the tide leaves on the beach, from a simple fan-shaped scallop and an open clam holding a pearl to a coiled nautilus, a knobbly conch and a frilly, spiky murex. And for a bit of everything at once, the nature sampler pages put a smiling rainbow, a sun between two clouds and a snow-capped mountain beside a cactus, a sunflower, a curling ocean wave and a tree in blossom. Zoom all the way out and the Earth coloring pages fit the whole planet on one sheet, from a smiling globe with a face over Africa and a view of the wide Pacific dotted with islands to a cartoon Earth full of clouds and curly waves and a globe criss-crossed with grid lines, with a penguin standing on Antarctica.

Where to Start by Age

• Toddlers and preschool: the sun, the cloud and the star. Big friendly faces, thick outlines, finished in minutes.
• Ages 5 to 7: the rainbow, the flower and the tree. A few more shapes inside the outline and real colour choices to make.
• Ages 8 and up: the garden, the landscape and the rainforest. Whole scenes with fine lines for a long, quiet sit-down page.

What Your Child Will Learn

• Plant Parts: Spot the petals, stem, leaves and roots, and learn what each one does.
• Seasons and Weather: See how the same tree or sky changes through the year.
• Colour Mixing: A sunset or a rainbow is a chance to talk about which colours sit next to each other.
• Fine Motor Skills: Practise careful coloring within outlines, from wide petals to tiny leaves.

Perfect For

These pages work well for preschool and kindergarten classrooms, homeschool science and seasons units, garden-centre and nature-walk follow-ups, Earth Day, and quiet rainy-day activities at home. They pair naturally with our animal coloring pages and bird coloring pages for a wider wildlife unit, and with the color-by-number math generator when you want a coloring sheet that doubles as practice. Print as many as you like — they're completely free.

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