75 Girl Coloring Pages (Free PDF Printables)

Most girl coloring pages show the same handful of things — a princess, a fairy, a girl in a dress standing still. This set was built the other way round, around what girls actually spend their days doing. Playing basketball. Building with blocks. Looking through a telescope. Running a lemonade stand.

There are 75 free designs, and around a third of them are active: skateboarding, roller skating, ice skating, a cartwheel, a handstand, a somersault, a pogo stick, a trampoline, hopscotch, skipping, badminton, soccer, basketball, frisbee, hula hoop, and a yoga pose.

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Another large group is making things. Painting at an easel, folding origami, weaving friendship bracelets, threading a beaded necklace, drawing with pavement chalk, making a scrapbook, building a pillow fort, throwing a paper airplane, and stretching a handful of slime.

The quiet pages are the ones to reach for at the end of a day: reading a book, reading comics, writing in a diary, writing a letter, a jigsaw puzzle, a game of checkers, shadow puppets, and a tea party. There are four with animals too — a rabbit, a puppy, a kitten, and feeding ducks by the water.

A few lean into pretend play rather than the real world: a fairy wand, a superhero cape, a dollhouse, a toy kitchen, a wooden train, and a toy camera. Those tend to suit the youngest colorists, along with the balance bike and the building blocks.

Detail runs from very simple to moderately involved. The single-figure pages — the handstand, the yo-yo, the ballet tutu — have large open areas that suit a four-year-old. The flower field, the lemonade stand and the science experiment have more going on and hold an older child longer.

Every one of these girl 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

Sport and moving about

Around twenty designs — soccer, basketball, badminton, frisbee, skateboarding, roller skating, ice skating, cycling, scooting, a pogo stick and a trampoline, plus gymnastics in the form of a cartwheel, a handstand and a somersault. These are the pages with the most movement in them, and they are worth having for a child who does not see herself in a princess dress.

Making and building

Painting at an easel, origami, friendship bracelets, a beaded necklace, pavement chalk, a scrapbook, a paper airplane, slime, a pillow fort, building blocks, magnetic tiles. Anything that involves hands and materials.

Music and performance

Ballet dancing, a ballet tutu, dancing in headphones, playing the guitar and singing into a microphone. Five designs, and the two ballet pages are the most detailed in that group.

Quiet afternoons

Reading a book, reading comics, writing a diary, writing a letter, a jigsaw puzzle, checkers, shadow puppets and a tea party. Slower scenes with fewer moving parts, and the ones that suit a child who wants to take her time.

Animals

A rabbit, a puppy, a kitten and a duck pond. Small in number but usually the first pages picked by a child who has a pet of her own.

Outdoors

Climbing a tree, collecting autumn leaves, collecting shells, a field of flowers, flying a kite, a swing, planting seeds, watering the garden, a sandcastle, hide and seek, and a telescope pointed at the sky.

Pretend play and everyday things

A fairy wand, a superhero cape, a dollhouse, a toy kitchen, a wooden train, a toy camera, a remote control car — alongside baking cupcakes, painting nails, a lemonade stand, blowing bubbles and a science experiment.

Coloring Tips

Hair is where the personality lands. Almost every page here shows a full figure, and the face is small. Hair is the largest identifiable feature — plaits, curls, a ponytail, a short bob — and colouring it deliberately is what makes a page feel like a particular girl rather than a generic one.

Let a child colour herself in. These are ordinary children doing ordinary things, which means a child can use her own skin tone, her own hair, her own favourite jumper. It is worth saying out loud to her, because most children assume the colours are already decided.

Movement needs a little help. The cartwheel, the somersault, the trampoline and the skipping rope all read as motion, but nothing on the page says so. A few pencil lines trailing behind an arm or a foot finishes them off.

Clothes are the easiest place to be bold. Skin, hair and background want restraint. A jumper, a skirt or a pair of trainers can take any colour at all, and it is where a child will happily spend the most time.

Match the palette to the scene. Autumn leaves want oranges and browns. The ice skating page wants pale blues and white. The flower field can take anything. Choosing before you start is what stops a page turning into a rainbow by accident.

Start young children on the toys. The building blocks, the wooden train, the toy kitchen and the balance bike have the fewest lines in the set. The lemonade stand, the flower field and the science experiment have the most.

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