About these baby coloring pages
Baby coloring pages are full of soft, happy things: sleeping babies, rattles, bottles, teddy bears, rubber ducks, strollers, cribs, bibs and little socks on a line. They are a lovely way to get a big brother or sister ready for a new baby, a calm activity at a baby shower and a sweet project for new parents. Our free printable baby pages go from one big teddy or a rattle for toddlers to detailed nursery scenes, baby animals with their mothers and shower decorations for older kids and adults.
Every page prints on US Letter or A4 paper, free and without a watermark, and you can color any of them online with a tap-to-fill brush. Color them in soft pastels for a nursery wall, in bright colors with a toddler, or let guests color them at a shower and give the finished pages to the parents as a keepsake.
Pages for big brothers and big sisters
Coloring is a gentle way to talk with a young child about a baby on the way. Color a page of a baby in a crib and talk about where the baby will sleep. Color a bottle, a bath with a rubber duck or a stroller and talk about how the family will take care of the baby, and how the big sibling can help.
Many children like to color a page and give it to the new baby as their first present. A finished teddy page taped next to the crib, signed by the big brother or sister, makes the older child feel part of the welcome.
Baby animal pages help too: a duck with ducklings, a cat with kittens, a mother elephant with her calf. They show in a simple way that families grow and that babies need a lot of care, which opens easy conversations with a curious preschooler.
- Easy: a rattle, a bottle, a teddy bear, a rubber duck, about 10 minutes
- Medium: a baby in a crib, a stroller, baby animals with their mothers, 20 to 30 minutes
- Detailed: nursery scenes, baby shower decorations, name banners, 45 minutes or more
Coloring at a baby shower
A coloring table is an easy, quiet shower activity that works for every guest, from grandparents to children. Print a stack of baby pages, put out colored pencils and markers, and ask each guest to color one and sign it with a wish for the baby.
The colored pages can be bound into a small book for the parents, hung on a string as a garland during the party or kept for the nursery. Matching the colors to the shower theme, such as soft yellow and mint or pink and lavender, makes the finished pages look like a set.
For a gender reveal, guests can color a page in the color they guess, then compare once the surprise is out. Keep a few easy pages and crayons on the table for the children who come along, so they have something of their own to do while the adults talk.
Baby facts to share while you color
- Newborns see best at about 20 to 30 centimeters (8 to 12 inches), roughly the distance to a parent's face during feeding.
- Very young babies see strong black and white contrast better than soft colors; color vision develops over the first months.
- Babies are born with about 300 bones; many fuse together as they grow, leaving about 206 in an adult.
- The teddy bear was named after US President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, after a 1902 story about a bear he refused to shoot.
- Rattles are one of the oldest toys: clay rattles thousands of years old have been found by archaeologists.
- Most babies are born with blue-gray or brown eyes, and their eye color can keep changing during the first year.
- A newborn's head is about a quarter of its body length; in an adult it is closer to an eighth.
Which baby page for which age
- Toddlers (2–3)
- One teddy, a rattle or a rubber duck with thick lines. A perfect first page for a new big sibling.
- Preschool (3–5)
- A baby in a crib, a stroller, baby animals. Talk about what babies need while they color.
- Kids (5–10)
- Nursery scenes and baby animal families. Color a welcome page for the new baby and sign it.
- Teens and adults
- Shower decorations, name banners and detailed nursery pages, colored in a pastel palette that matches the theme.
Coloring tips and color ideas
- Use soft pastels for a nursery look: baby blue, pink, mint, lavender and butter yellow.
- Color the teddy bear in two browns, a lighter one for the muzzle, ears and paw pads.
- Leave the baby's blanket white with small pastel dots or stripes for a soft, printed-fabric look.
- For skin, a light peach, tan or brown pencil with a little pink on the cheeks looks natural; choose tones that match the family.
- Colored pencils give the softest look for nursery pages; markers are better for bright pages for toddlers.
- At a shower, set out one palette of 6 to 8 colors so all the finished pages match.
Ideas for home, school and parties
- New sibling welcome: let the big brother or sister color a page and give it to the baby as a first gift.
- Baby shower coloring table: each guest colors a page and writes a wish for the baby on it.
- Nursery art: frame three pastel pages, such as a teddy, a moon and a duck, above the changing table.
- Birth announcement: color a page with the baby's name banner and send a photo of it to family.
- Make a baby's first year coloring book from your own photos: upload pictures of first smiles, steps and birthdays and Coloriki turns them into pages, a lovely gift for a baby shower.
How to print baby coloring pages
- Open the page you like and press Print it. A PDF opens, sized for US Letter; the A4 PDF is next to it.
- In the print window choose "Fit to page" or 100% scale, and plain white paper. Thicker paper (100 to 120 gsm) is better for markers and paint.
- Print a few copies: kids like to try different colors on the same picture.
- Prefer screens? Press Color it online and color with a tap on a phone, tablet or computer.