About these castle coloring pages
Castle coloring pages are full of things to find and color: towers, flags, battlements, a drawbridge over a moat and windows that hint at secret rooms. Our free castle pages range from a simple castle with one tower and a door for toddlers to detailed fortresses on hills, fairy-tale palaces among the clouds and busy medieval scenes with knights and horses for older kids and adults.
Every free printable page fits US Letter or A4 paper, and you can color any page online with a tap-to-fill brush. A castle page is a great way to talk about history while you color: why castles had thick walls and narrow windows, who lived inside, and how a drawbridge kept visitors out. Children who like building blocks often love castle coloring pages most of all.
Why kids love coloring castles
A castle is a building, a story and a puzzle at once. Kids can color every stone a different shade of gray, design the flags on each tower and decide who lives inside: a king and queen, a family of knights or a friendly dragon in the courtyard.
Castle pages are also good practice for careful coloring. The straight walls, small windows and repeating battlements help children slow down and stay in the lines, while the sky and hills around the castle leave room to color freely.
Castles exist on almost every continent, so a castle page can start a little trip around the world: stone fortresses in Scotland and Wales, red brick castles in Poland, white castles with curved roofs in Japan and desert forts in India and Morocco. Kids enjoy guessing which country a castle might be in from its shape.
The parts of a castle
Knowing the names of the parts makes a castle page more fun to color and talk about. Most of our pages show several of these.
Real castles were built from whatever stone was nearby, so their colors vary a lot: gray granite, honey-colored limestone, red sandstone or red brick. Fairy-tale castles on our pages are free to be pastel, but a history-style castle looks most real in earthy grays, browns and creams, with green ivy climbing the walls.
- Moat and drawbridge: the ditch of water and the bridge that could be lifted
- Gatehouse and portcullis: the strong entrance and its heavy sliding gate
- Battlements: the tooth-shaped top of the walls, where guards could look out
- Keep: the tallest, strongest tower, where the lord and his family lived
- Courtyard: the open space inside the walls, with stables, a well and a kitchen
Castle facts to share while you color
- Many early castles in England were "motte and bailey" castles: a wooden tower on a hill of earth, with a fenced yard below.
- The White Tower at the Tower of London was begun by William the Conqueror around 1078.
- The gaps in the battlements are called crenels, and the raised parts between them are called merlons.
- Arrow slits were narrow on the outside and wide on the inside, so archers could aim out while staying protected.
- Windsor Castle in England is the oldest and largest castle in the world that people still live in.
- Himeji Castle in Japan is so bright white that it is nicknamed the "White Heron Castle".
- Malbork Castle in Poland, built with red bricks, is the largest castle in the world by land area.
Which castle page for which age
- Toddlers (2–3)
- Easy pages with one simple castle, a door and a flag, drawn with very thick lines.
- Preschool (3–5)
- Easy and medium pages with towers and flags to count and shapes to name: squares, triangles and arches.
- Kids (5–10)
- Medium scenes with knights, horses, moats and dragons. Colored pencils work well for the many stones.
- Teens and adults
- Detailed fortresses and palaces with brickwork, landscapes and skies. Try shading one side of each tower darker.
Coloring tips and color ideas
- Color the stone walls in several grays and browns, changing the shade every few bricks, so the castle looks old and real.
- Pick one side of the castle as the shady side and color it a little darker on every tower.
- Make the flags bright: one color per family, or stripes and stars of your own design.
- Color the windows yellow for a castle at night, with a dark blue sky around it.
- Color the moat dark blue-green and add a few lighter ripples.
- For a fairy-tale castle, try pink, lilac and gold towers with a sunset behind them.
Ideas for home, school and parties
- History lesson: color a castle, then label the moat, drawbridge, keep and battlements.
- Knight and princess party: print a castle page for each guest and hang them together as one big kingdom.
- Design a coat of arms: color the flags on the towers with your own family symbol and colors.
- Build and color: color the page, then build the same castle with blocks or cardboard boxes.
- Put your family in the castle: upload a photo and Coloriki makes a coloring page of your child as a knight, a king or a queen, or describe your dream castle and we draw it.
How to print castle 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.