75 Heart Coloring Pages (Free PDF Printables)

A coloring page is one of the few things a small child can make and give away, which is most of the reason heart coloring pages exist. Twenty of the seventy-five designs here have words already drawn into them — I Love Mom, I Love Dad, I Love Grandma, I Love My Dog, Thank You, You Are Loved — with the lettering hollow so it gets coloured in like everything else.

The family ones cover most of who a child might want to give something to: Mom and Mum both, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, my Sister, my Brother, my Family, my Teacher, my Dog, my Cat. Alongside them are Best Friends, I Love You, Be Mine, Love, XOXO, Thank You, Happy Valentine’s Day, You Are Loved, and Home Is Where The Heart Is.

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Five designs have a blank banner instead of words — straight, curved, wavy and two others — so a child can write in a name themselves. Those are worth printing when the name you need is not on the list, which it usually isn’t.

The patterned hearts are the largest group. Filled with flowers, stars, leaves, butterflies, swirls, waves, stripes, polka dots, paisley, lace and zentangle. Then hearts made of other things entirely — roses, feathers, birds in flight, clouds, vines, ribbons, small hearts, stars and leaves.

There are objects too: a balloon, a locket on a chain, a box of chocolates, a heart-shaped cake, a biscuit, a heart in an envelope, a heart with a key, a heart with an arrow, bunting and a garland. And a run of cute ones — a smiling heart, a sleeping heart, a heart with wings, a heart in a crown, a heart with a plaster on it, two hearts holding hands.

Six designs bring in something living: two hands making a heart shape, hands cupped around one, a cat curled into a heart, a bird carrying one, a bear holding one and a teddy with one. Three are for adults rather than children — a hearts mandala, a mandala drawn inside a heart, and a dense zentangle heart.

Every one of these heart coloring pages is free, prints on standard US letter paper, and needs no sign-up. Click any design below to open the full-size PDF.

What’s in This Collection

Hearts with words in them

Twenty designs, and the reason most people come to a page like this. Mom and Mum are both included, along with Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, Sister, Brother, Family, Teacher, Dog and Cat. The lettering is drawn hollow so it is coloured in rather than left as flat black text, which makes the finished page look made rather than printed.

Blank banner hearts

Five designs with an empty banner across the heart. Print one of these when the name you want is not among the twenty — Auntie, Nana, a friend’s name, a pet’s name. A child writing the name themselves usually matters more to whoever receives it than neat lettering would.

Patterned hearts

Around fifteen designs where the shape stays simple and the inside carries the interest — flowers, stars, leaves, butterflies, swirls, waves, stripes, polka dots, paisley and lace. These sit in the middle of the difficulty range and are the most straightforwardly satisfying to finish.

Hearts made of other things

Roses, feathers, birds, clouds, vines, ribbons, stars, leaves and small hearts, each arranged into the heart shape rather than drawn inside it. A different kind of page: you are colouring dozens of separate objects that happen to form one outline.

Objects

A balloon, a locket, a box of chocolates, a cake, a biscuit, an envelope, a key, an arrow, bunting and a garland. Ten designs, and the ones that work as a card or a cut-out rather than just a page.

Cute hearts

A smiling heart, a sleeping heart, wings, a crown, a bow, a plaster, and two hearts holding hands. The simplest outlines in the set and the right place to start a three- or four-year-old.

Hearts with animals and hands

Two hands making a heart, hands cupped around one, a cat curled into the shape, a bird carrying one, a bear holding one and a teddy. Six designs, and the hands ones in particular tend to be what older children pick.

Detailed pages for adults

A hearts mandala, a mandala inside a heart, a dense zentangle heart, the lace heart and the layered roses. Fine pattern inside a large shape, so they take an evening without becoming fiddly.

For more designs in a similar vein, there is a set of Mother’s Day coloring pages and a larger collection of mandala coloring pages if the patterned hearts are what you came for.

Coloring Tips

Hearts do not have to be red. Twenty of these pages are a gift for a specific person, which makes them a good excuse to use that person’s favourite colour instead of the obvious one. A grandmother’s page in her garden colours means more than another red heart.

Colour the letters, do not outline them. The words are drawn hollow on purpose. Filling each letter in — even in a different colour from the heart around it — is what makes the page look handmade rather than printed.

Write in the banner before colouring. On the five blank-banner designs, get the name written first in pencil, then colour around it. Doing it the other way round means writing on top of wax or ink, which rarely goes well.

Two shades beat one on a big heart. The plain and cute hearts are large open shapes. A lighter tone at the top left where light would fall, and a deeper one toward the bottom right, makes the shape look round rather than flat.

The made-of-things hearts want a repeated palette. On the roses, feathers, birds and small-hearts designs, choosing four colours and repeating them across the whole shape reads far better than giving every single element its own.

Print two of the gift ones. A child who is giving a page away usually wants to keep one as well. It is the most common reason a page gets printed twice, and worth knowing before the first one is handed over.

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