About these family coloring pages
Family coloring pages show the everyday moments children know best: a family baking cookies in the kitchen, reading a bedtime story on the couch, having a picnic in the park, riding bikes together, building sandcastles on holiday, walking the dog or visiting grandma and grandpa. Our free printable family pages include simple parent-and-child pictures for toddlers, busy home and park scenes for school-age kids and detailed holiday scenes for teens and adults.
Print them on US Letter or A4 paper, or color them online. Family pages are made for coloring together: one page, two or three crayon boxes, and a parent and child each taking a corner of the picture. They also suit a rainy weekend, a visit to grandparents, a waiting room or a quiet hour before bed, anywhere a family has a table and a little time.
Pages that start a conversation
When a child colors a family picture, they almost always turn it into their own family. The mom gets the same hair color as their mom, the dog becomes their dog, a baby sister appears in the corner. Let them change the page as much as they like, and ask about it while they color: who is this? What are they doing? What do you like to do together?
Family pages are also a gentle way to talk about changes at home, such as a new baby, a move, a grandparent coming to live with you or a family spread across two houses. Children often find it easier to color a scene and talk about it than to answer questions directly.
Teachers use family pages for "My family" lessons in preschool and kindergarten: color a family scene, draw in anyone who is missing, then share it with the class. Every family looks different, and every one of them fits on a page.
Family scenes to color
Our family pages cover the three places families spend the most time together.
Choose a scene that matches something your family really does, and the page becomes a memory. Color the picnic page after a day at the park, the baking page after making cookies on a Sunday, the beach page after a summer trip. Kids can add details from the real day in pencil first, such as the color of the picnic blanket, the shape of the cookies or the name of the beach, then color over them. Kept in a folder, these pages turn into a small family scrapbook drawn by the children.
- At home: cooking, baking, board games, bath time and bedtime stories
- At the park: picnics, swings, kites, bike rides and feeding the ducks
- On holiday: beaches, camping trips, road trips and building snowmen
- With grandparents: gardening, fishing, baking and looking at old photos
- With pets: walking the dog, cuddling the cat, cleaning the fish tank
- Special days: birthdays, holidays and the first day of school
Family facts and ideas to share while you color
- The United Nations marks the International Day of Families every year on May 15.
- In the United States, National Grandparents Day is the first Sunday after Labor Day, in September.
- The word "family" comes from the Latin word familia, which meant everyone living in one household.
- A family tree shows the generations of a family: parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and so on.
- National Grandparents Day became an official day in the United States in 1978.
- Many countries have their own Mother's Day and Father's Day, often on different dates, so some families celebrate twice.
- Coloring side by side is one of the few activities toddlers, parents and grandparents can all enjoy at the same table.
Which family page for which age
- Toddlers (2–3)
- One parent and one child, or a family of ducks, with thick lines and large shapes. Name each person as they color.
- Preschool (3–5)
- Simple home and park scenes with a few people to color, ideal for "This is my family" activities.
- Kids (5–10)
- Busy picnics, kitchen scenes, camping trips and holiday pictures with lots of small details to find. They can write a short caption about their own family under the picture.
- Teens and adults
- Detailed family scenes and patterned pages to color slowly alongside the younger ones, so the whole table is busy with the same activity.
Coloring tips and color ideas
- Color the people to look like your own family: hair, skin, glasses and favorite clothes.
- Add the missing people or pets in the empty space with a pencil before coloring.
- Use warm, cozy colors for home scenes and bright greens and blues for the park.
- Let each person at the table color one family member, then sign the page together.
- Write each person's name under them, or above them in a speech bubble.
- Date the back of the page, so you can look back on it in a few years.
Ideas for home, school and parties
- Family wall: hang each family member's colored page in a row in the hallway.
- Family tree: color a page for each person and arrange them by generation on a large sheet.
- Grandparent mail: color a family scene and post it to grandparents who live far away.
- Family motto sign: write "Home sweet home" or your own family saying with the free quote maker and color it for the kitchen.
- Your own family coloring book: upload family photos from home, the park or your holidays and Coloriki turns them into a coloring book where every page shows your family.
How to print family 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.