VerbNow has more than 14,000 free coloring pages, sorted into ten collections. Every page is drawn in black and white on US Letter, so it prints on the printer you already own, and nothing here asks you to make an account first.
If you know what you are looking for, the search box above goes straight to it. If you are browsing, start with the ten collections below — each one opens onto every set inside it.
The ten collections
Each collection is drawn for a stated age range. Line weight, spacing and the amount of detail change between them, which is what decides whether a page suits a three-year-old or a nine-year-old.
Animal and nature coloring pages
The largest collection on the site: pets and farm animals, sea life, reptiles and bugs, flowers, fruit and weather. Shapes stay recognizable in outline, so a child can name what they are coloring before they pick up a crayon.
Character coloring pages
Cartoons, anime and manga, princesses, superheroes and game characters. These are drawn with closed, bold outlines that suit markers rather than colored pencils, because that is what most children reach for with a character page.
How to draw guides
Not coloring pages but drawing lessons. Every guide starts from one basic shape and adds a single line per numbered step, so a child can follow it without an adult redrawing the page for them.
Seasonal and holiday printables
Back to school, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and the smaller days in between. Seasonal sets are the ones worth printing a few weeks early rather than the night before.
Puzzles and quiet-time activities
Mazes, word searches, matching games and dot-to-dot. These need nothing but a pencil, which makes them the ones to keep in a bag for waiting rooms and long drives.
Chore and routine charts
Chore charts, morning and bedtime routine charts, reward and sticker charts. Each is one page, sized and weighted to survive being stuck on a fridge door and written on daily.
Math worksheets and color by number
Color-by-addition and color-by-subtraction, mystery pictures, and solve-and-color pages for kindergarten through second grade. The answer key lives on the page itself, so nobody has to hunt for a second sheet.
Alphabet worksheets
Letter tracing from A to Z, name practice, beginning sounds and sight words. Guide lines here are deliberately chunky, sized for preschool and kindergarten hands still learning to steer a pencil.
Crafts for kids
Cut-and-glue paper projects with one photo per step, plus plain guides to the supplies behind them. Templates print on plain US Letter — no card stock needed unless a project says so.
Guides for parents and teachers
The written side of the site: how to teach everyday skills step by step, which supplies are worth buying, and how to pick activities by age.
How to print these
Open any collection, pick the pages you want, and print. Every printable is drawn at 2550 × 3300 pixels, which is 8.5 × 11 inches at 300 dpi — the exact size of a sheet of US Letter paper.
- Paper: ordinary copier paper is fine for crayons and colored pencils. Markers bleed through it, so use the thickest paper in the house if a child is using markers.
- Ink: everything is black and white line art, so a black cartridge alone prints every page on this site.
- Scaling: set the printer to 100% or “actual size” rather than “fit to page”, which shrinks the drawing and adds a white border.
- Several at once: the grid on each collection page lets you tick multiple pages and send them to the printer in one job, or save them as a single PDF.
Which pages suit which age
Age fit is decided by line weight and by how much white space sits between lines, not by the subject. A four-year-old can happily color a dinosaur if the outlines are thick enough.
- Ages 2-4: the thickest outlines and the largest areas. Look in the animal collection and the alphabet worksheets.
- Ages 5-7: more shapes per page and finer internal detail. Most character pages and the color-by-number math sheets sit here.
- Ages 8+: pattern work, scenes with backgrounds, and the drawing guides, where the reward is the finished drawing rather than the coloring.
Colored pencils give the most control for younger children, and there is a readable summary of the differences between pencil types on Wikipedia’s colored pencil page. For why coloring and drawing are worth the paper at all, the National Association for the Education of Young Children publishes plain-language guidance on creative play in early childhood.
FAQ
Are these coloring pages really free?
Yes. Every page on VerbNow is free to download and print, for home and for classroom use, with no account and no email required.
Do I need a color printer?
No. Every printable is black and white line art, so a black cartridge prints all of them. The color comes from the child.
Can I use these in my classroom?
Yes. Teachers can print as many copies as a class needs. What you cannot do is sell the pages or repost the files as your own.
What size paper do these print on?
US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches. On A4 paper, set the printer to “fit to page” and the drawing will scale down with a slightly wider margin.