35 Flower Coloring Pages (Free PDF Printables)

Most flower coloring pages are a generic bloom that does not exist. These are named. Protea, hydrangea, camellia, anemone, magnolia, hibiscus, carnation, orchid, peony, iris and lavender all appear as themselves, drawn accurately enough to recognize. There are 35 designs.

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Eleven are bouquets and arrangements, with roses, peonies, orchids, carnations, lavender and magnolia tied with ribbon or standing in a vase. Nine are a single species on its own. Eight pair flowers with butterflies or a bee. The rest are scenes rather than studies: a wildflower meadow, lotus on a pond, a cherry blossom branch, a floral wreath, a watering can with tulips, tulips under a rainbow, and two fantasy pages with mushrooms and a moon.

Every one of these flower coloring pages is free. Each design prints on standard US Letter paper, there is no sign-up, and the flower coloring sheets can be printed as many times as you need. Click any design below to open the full-size PDF.

What’s in This Collection

Named species

Protea, hydrangea, camellia, anemone, magnolia, hibiscus, carnation and orchid, each drawn on its own. The protea is the strangest one in the set and worth looking up before coloring. What looks like a ring of petals is not petals at all but stiff colored bracts around a dense head of tiny flowers, which is why it holds its shape when it dries.

Bouquets and vases

Eleven arrangements: roses with ribbon, peony and iris, lavender and orchid, a carnation bunch, magnolia in a vase, and several with a cactus standing among them. These have the most separate shapes of anything here and take the longest to finish.

Flowers with insects

Eight pages pair blooms with butterflies or a bee. The sunflower and bee page has the best fact behind it: the dark center is not one flower but hundreds of tiny ones packed in two sets of spirals, and a bee works its way around those spirals rather than across the middle.

Scenes

A wildflower meadow, lotus on a pond, cherry blossom on the branch, a floral wreath, a watering can with tulips, tulips under a rainbow, and two fantasy pages. The meadow is the densest sheet here and the one to save for an adult or an older child.

The simple ones

An easy daisy bouquet, simple flowers for kids, kawaii flowers and cute sunflowers. Four pages drawn with heavy outlines and large open shapes, for a child too young for the rest.

Coloring Tips

Green is not one green. A leaf on a rose, a lavender stem and a cactus are three different colors. Reaching for the same pencil for every stem and leaf on the page is the fastest way to make a careful drawing look flat. Two greens is enough, three is better.

Petals are lighter at the edge. On the peony, the rose and the camellia, pressing harder near the center and easing off toward the rim gives the flower depth without any shading skill at all. It works on every bloom here and it is the single most useful habit on this set.

Look the named ones up first. A protea is pink and silver, a hibiscus is usually red or orange, hydrangea comes in blue or pink depending on the soil it grew in. Spending a minute on a photograph turns eight of these pages into something learned rather than guessed.

Leave the water pale. On the lotus pond and the watering can page, a light wash of blue with plenty of white left in it reads as water. A solid blue reads as a wall behind the flowers.

Start younger children on the single blooms. The daisy bouquet, the simple flowers and the kawaii pages have the fewest lines. The wildflower meadow, the floral wreath and the bouquets with a dozen separate stems are the ones to save for someone older.

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