This collection has 22 free solar system coloring pages: orbit maps of the whole system, star-filled space scenes, planets drawn with friendly faces for younger kids, and one labelled chart with all nine bodies named. Every page is black and white on US Letter, downloads as a free PDF, and needs no signup.
The pages split cleanly by age, and it is worth choosing on purpose. The orbit maps and labelled chart are the ones that do school work — they show relative position and let a child write or say the names. The star-field pages are the opposite: dozens of small planets, moons and comets scattered edge to edge, closer to a detail page than a diagram.
What’s in this collection
Five orbit maps, six pages of planets with faces, eight star-filled space scenes and three single-subject pages — 22 in total, in the grid below. Each has its own Download PDF and Print button, so you can take one page instead of the whole set.
Orbit maps of the whole system
Five pages lay the planets out along their orbital rings with the sun at the centre — two of them drawn in perspective, so the rings run as ellipses across the sheet. One version keeps the background completely empty, which makes it the easiest page here for a child who is still learning to stay inside a line. These are the pages to print when the point is order of the planets rather than decoration.
Planets with faces
Six pages give the sun and planets simple smiling faces. One is a tidy grid of nine round planets, each one its own box — the closest thing in this set to a worksheet. The rest scatter the same characters among stars. Thick outlines, few internal lines, and nothing smaller than a crayon tip, so these are the ones that work from about age 4.
Star-filled space scenes
Eight pages fill the sheet: banded gas giants, cratered moons, comets with trails, asteroid belts, rockets and a flying saucer. Detail is fine here and the shapes are small, which suits colored pencils and children who like a page that takes more than one sitting.
The named chart, the astronaut and Jupiter close up
Three pages stand on their own. One is a labelled chart — nine framed boxes reading Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, which makes it usable as a naming exercise as well as a coloring page. One shows an astronaut floating cross-legged among the planets. The last is a single banded planet filling the whole sheet, all curved bands and moons, and it is the best page in the set for practising blended color.
How to print these
Every page is US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), pure black and white, with the drawing inside the printable margin. Plain copy paper is fine; choose “Fit to page” if your printer asks. For the star-field pages, print at normal or best quality — draft mode thins out the smallest stars until they disappear.
FAQ
Are all the planets named on these pages?
On one of them. The labelled chart names all nine bodies including Pluto; the orbit maps show position without text, which is what you want if the child is meant to fill the names in.
Which page suits a preschooler?
The planets-with-faces pages, and the empty-background orbit map. Both use thick lines and large areas. The star-field scenes are too fine for most children under six.
Are these planet coloring pages free to use in class?
Yes. Print as many copies as you need for your home or your own classroom. Re-selling or re-uploading the files elsewhere is the only thing not allowed.
How do I get the PDF?
Click any page in the grid, then use the Download PDF button on that page. Print sends it straight to your printer. No email is asked for at any point.
For more pages that teach while they color, the science coloring pages cover lab and nature subjects at the same line weight, and the math coloring pages put a problem inside every section of the picture.