This collection has 16 free octopus coloring pages: eight ornate zentangle designs, six kawaii pages for young children and two busy reef scenes packed with other sea life. Every page is black and white on US Letter, downloads as a free PDF, and needs no signup.
An octopus is the best possible subject for a patterned coloring page and the eight ornate sheets know it. Eight arms curling in eight directions give eight long ribbons to fill, each one lined with suckers drawn as separate circles, and the body is divided into scales, spirals and petals. Two of them go further and bury the animal in a wrecked ship or a lighthouse cove with hundreds of small shapes around it. Those are evening-long pages for an adult with a fine pen.
What’s in this collection
Eight ornate designs, six kawaii pages and two reef scenes — 16 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.
Ornate designs
Eight pages fill the animal with pattern: one drifting over a coral bed drawn flower by flower, one whose arms coil into spirals against a plain ground, one among anchors and a ship’s wheel on the seabed, one beneath a lighthouse with waves breaking overhead. Suckers, scales and swirls everywhere and almost no flat area — these are adult-coloring pages in everything but the label.
Kawaii pages
Six pages go round and friendly: a smiling octopus beside a treasure chest and a parasol, one striped and spotted standing on its arms, one on the sand among starfish and shells, one peeking out of a shipwreck. Thick outlines, big closed shapes, nothing small — ages 3 to 7.
Two reef scenes
Two pages open right out into a whole habitat: sharks, dolphins, jellyfish, crabs, seahorses and small fish crowded around the octopus, with a fishing line strung across the surface on one of them. They have more separate creatures than the rest of the collection put together and work as a spot-and-count sheet before any coloring starts.
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. Print the ornate designs at best quality — the sucker circles along each arm are the smallest shapes on the page and draft mode fills them in.
FAQ
Are there octopus pages for adults?
Eight zentangle-style designs, two of them set in a shipwreck and a lighthouse cove. They are the most detailed pages in this set.
Which pages suit a young child?
The six kawaii pages. Round bodies, big smiles, thick outlines and plenty of open water.
Are other sea creatures included?
Two reef scenes bring in sharks, dolphins, jellyfish, crabs and seahorses; several kawaii pages add a starfish or a shell.
Do I need a color printer?
No. Every page prints in black and white; the color comes from your pencils or crayons.
For more of the reef, the ocean coloring pages cover the whole underwater scene, and the seahorse coloring pages include seven more zentangle designs.