Snake Coloring Pages

Search for snake coloring pages and you get two completely different requests wearing the same words. One is a parent looking for a smiling cartoon snake a four year old can finish before dinner. The other is someone who wants the scales, the diamond bands and the coiled body of a real snake, drawn accurately enough to be worth an hour. Most collections serve one and leave the other hunting. These 15 snake coloring pages are built as three labelled groups so you can go straight to the one you came for. Every design downloads as a free printable PDF sized for US Letter paper, 8.5 by 11 inches.

Cute Cartoon Snake Coloring Pages for Kids

Six sheets in this group use thick outlines, large open areas and very few interior lines. Big Smiling Snake Face Close Up is the easiest page on the site for this subject. One big grinning face takes up most of the sheet with a short coiled body below it, so there are only a handful of areas to fill and a toddler can finish it and feel finished. Happy Baby Snake Sliding Through the Grass is the next step up, a single long S curve to follow from head to tail with only a scattered row of grass strokes underneath.

Cute Cartoon Snake Coiled Up and Smiling is the one most children pick first. Ten big round spots run along its back as open outlines, so there are enough separate targets to keep a pattern going without the page turning fiddly. Sleepy Cartoon Snake Curled Into a Spiral turns the whole body into nested rings, which colors beautifully as a target and settles a room down.

Two sheets add a second element. Mother Snake and Her Baby Snake draws a long adult and a short baby with clear space between them, which gives two children one sheet each to argue over or a single child a lesson in big and small. Cartoon Snake Curled Around a Tree Branch puts the snake in a tree with four large open leaves, and it is the busiest of the cartoon group without being crowded.

Realistic Snake Coloring Sheets

Five sheets draw real species with honest proportions. Realistic Cobra With Its Hood Spread Wide is the pose everyone pictures, the front third of the body upright and the hood spread into one wide flat shape that is the biggest blank area on the animal. Rattlesnake With Its Rattle Raised stretches out along the ground and curls its tail up to hold a six segment rattle clear of the dirt, so every segment is visible and colorable.

Realistic Python Draped Over a Tree Branch is the heaviest animal here, resting its head on the wood, with large rounded back markings that suit a bold treatment. Realistic Viper Resting on a Flat Rock stretches out along a warm rock with its tail over the edge, and its zigzag bands make the strongest two color sheet in the set. Realistic Garter Snake Sliding Over Fallen Leaves curves above a bed of broad leaves, and it is the gentlest of the five and the one most North American readers have actually met in a garden.

Every marking on these five is drawn as an open outline with a blank centre, so you decide where the dark tones fall rather than working around ink the printer already laid down.

Detailed Snake Coloring Pages for Adults

Four sheets carry real pattern work. Snake With Diamond Scale Patterns runs a row of large open diamonds from neck to tail over rows of small scale outlines. Ornamental Snake With Decorative Ring Patterns covers a coiled body in rows of open rings, each a circle inside a circle, which rewards planning two tones before you start.

Snake Coiled Inside a Mandala Circle is the longest sit of the collection, a snake curled into a ring inside a repeating frame of pointed petals. Snake Raising Its Head With Patterned Scales works close in, so the scales become the subject and shrink toward the snout, which gives you a natural place to shift tone. Fine pens and colored pencils suit all four better than markers.

How to Print These Snake Coloring Pages

Every page downloads as a PDF built for US Letter paper with the margin already in place, so print at 100 percent and skip the scaling options. Plain copy paper handles crayons and colored pencils. Use the heaviest paper your printer accepts if you plan to use markers, because the scale rows on the detailed sheets sit close enough together that bleed turns them into a smudge.

Snakes print well as a strip. The cartoon snakes are long and narrow, so color two or three, cut around the outer outline and tape them end to end along a shelf edge or a doorframe.

Where to Go Next

Snakes sit next to the other creatures children find slightly alarming and then color anyway. Our spider coloring pages are the closest match in audience and difficulty, and they run the same split between friendly cartoons and honest anatomy. The zoo animal coloring pages put snakes back in context with the rest of the reptile house, and the dinosaur coloring pages pick up the same scaled reptile appeal for the same age group. Printing a snake, a spider and a dinosaur together makes a reasonable set for a child who has decided that cute animals are boring.