40 United States Flag Coloring Page (Free PDF Printables)

The United States flag is one of the few designs almost everyone can draw from memory, and one of the few where getting it exactly right is genuinely difficult — thirteen stripes, fifty stars in a specific staggered arrangement, and the blue canton reaching down over seven of the stripes. That mix of familiar and fiddly makes a united states flag coloring page useful for more than just a holiday afternoon.

There are 40 free designs here, and most place the flag in a setting rather than isolating it. The classic Fourth of July material is present — fireworks with a pie, a waving flag on a flagpole, a bald eagle holding the flag, the Statue of Liberty, and Mount Rushmore. So is a run of Americana: a log cabin, a lighthouse, a farm barn, a small-town storefront, a classic convertible, a motorcycle, a pickup, and two semi-trucks on the highway.

There’s a substantial school group, which makes this set useful in September as well as July. A schoolhouse, a school building, a school bus, a classroom with a whiteboard and desks, a flag with a clock and backpacks, graduation caps with a diploma, and a page of art supplies around the flag.

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Five designs work with maps: the flag over an outline of the country, the USA filled with stars and stripes, a plain map outline, a waving flag above the map, and one with Texas picked out. Those pair naturally with a geography lesson. Sports get three — a baseball field, a football stadium, and an arena — and there’s a carnival fairground, a sailboat, a family home, an empty stage, and the flag planted on the Moon.

Every united states flag coloring page here 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 United States Flag Coloring Page Collection

Patriotic symbols

The bald eagle, chosen as the national emblem in 1782 over Benjamin Franklin’s reported preference for the turkey. The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France dedicated in 1886. Mount Rushmore, carved between 1927 and 1941. Each appears once here alongside the flag.

The Moon landing

One design. Six American flags were planted on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Because there’s no wind, each was fitted with a horizontal rod to hold it out — which is why the famous photographs show it apparently waving. Satellite imaging suggests five are still standing.

School scenes

Seven designs. The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 for the four-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s voyage, and the words “under God” were added only in 1954.

Americana and vehicles

Nine designs covering the barn, cabin, lighthouse, storefront, convertible, motorcycle, pickup and two semi-trucks.

Maps

Five designs. Useful for teaching state locations, and the Texas page in particular for anyone wanting a single state picked out.

Fourth of July

Fireworks, pie, the flagpole, the carnival. Independence Day marks the adoption of the Declaration on 4 July 1776, though the vote for independence was actually taken on 2 July — a date John Adams expected would be the one celebrated.

Coloring Tips

Get the stripes right and the rest follows. Thirteen stripes, red at both the top and the bottom, alternating with white — so seven red and six white. Counting them out before you start saves redoing a page.

The canton covers seven stripes. The blue rectangle in the corner extends down over the top seven stripes and across two-fifths of the width. Most people draw it too small.

Fifty stars, in rows. Nine rows alternating six stars and five. Not every design here shows them exactly, but on those that do, leaving them white against blue is correct — never color the stars themselves.

Old Glory Red and Old Glory Blue. The official shades are a deep red and a dark navy, not bright primary colours. Pressing lightly with a red pencil and building up gives a closer result than a single hard pass.

Use the settings. The barn, lighthouse, stadium and fairground pages all have backgrounds that let you put greens, greys and browns behind the flag, which makes the red and blue read far stronger than against white paper.

Good for a group. The simplest designs — the flagpole, the draped flag, the star emblem — work well printed in quantity for a classroom or a Fourth of July party table. A united states flag coloring page is one of the few printables that suits a whole room of different ages at once.

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