Monster Coloring Pages
15 free printable pages, ready to download and print.
Free printable monster coloring pages featuring friendly cartoon monsters, one eyed creatures, furry beasts and googly eyed aliens.
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Monsters are the one subject where a child gets to invent the rules. A tiger has to be orange. A frog has to be green. A monster can be any color a child reaches for, and none of it is wrong. That single fact makes these sheets unusually good for a young colorer who freezes up over getting things right.
These 15 monster coloring pages run from very simple to genuinely detailed. The cute ones use big bold outlines and almost no interior lines, so a three year old can finish one. The detailed ones carry scales, spines and rows of fur, and they will hold an older child or an adult for an hour. Every design downloads as a free printable PDF sized for US Letter paper.
Cute monsters for younger children
These five are built from big rounded shapes with thick outlines and plenty of white paper. A wobbly line still lands inside the border, which is exactly what a small child needs.
Cute Round Monster Waving Hello is the simplest sheet on the site. One round body, two horns, a raised hand. A single crayon finishes it.
Little Monster Hatching From an Egg gives you a big plain shell to pattern and a zigzag crack to leave white.
Little Monster With Small Wings hovers just off the ground. The gap under its feet is what sells the float, so leave that strip of paper alone.
Baby Monster Hugging a Teddy Bear puts two characters on one page. Keeping the toy a different color from the monster is the whole exercise.
Happy Monster Holding a Balloon has the best blank surface in the set. The balloon takes spots, stripes, a star or a name.
Monster scenes
These five put the monster somewhere. A scene sheet gives a child something to talk about while they color, and it carries more shapes than a portrait does.
Monster Peeking Out From Under the Bed turns the oldest bedtime fear into a friendly face. Pattern the blanket, keep the monster plain, and he pops out of the shadow.
Monster Trick or Treating With a Candy Bucket walks off with a pail full of wrapped sweets. It pairs well with our pumpkin coloring pages and the wider Halloween collection.
Monster Riding a Skateboard hands you a flat deck to design. That deck is where a real board carries its graphic.
Monster Blowing Out Birthday Candles leans over a tall frosted cake. Color the frosting and the sponge in different tones and the icing reads as poured on.
Monster Reading a Bedtime Story is the calm one. Both pages of the book are blank, so a child can write the story in.
Detailed monsters for older colorers
These five carry fine interior line work. They suit a child of eight and up, and they suit adults.
Shaggy Monster With Curling Horns stands upright under a pair of ridged horns, his coat drawn as rows of open scallop strokes.
One Eyed Monster With a Striped Belly wraps wide bands round a round body. Stripes bend over a curved surface, and that bend is what creates depth.
Spiky Monster Sitting on a Rock is the toothiest sheet here, with a row of triangular spines down its back and scales across its body.
Tentacled Monster Rising From the Water lifts curling tentacles above a wavy sea, each one lined with open suckers.
Grinning Monster Face Close Up fills the sheet with one big face. It is the best page in the set for learning to shade an eye.
Three things that make a monster look better
Leave the teeth white. Put your darkest tone in the gaps between the teeth instead. A white tooth against a dark mouth is what makes a grin read as a grin.
Do not fill the fur. Every furry monster here is drawn as rows of short open strokes with paper showing between them. Color the strokes and skip the gaps. Fill it all in and the animal turns into a dark blob.
Pick one bright thing. Color the balloon, the cake or the candy in your strongest shades and keep the monster in a single quieter tone. A page where everything shouts has no focal point at all.
If your colorer wants more in this vein, the dragon coloring pages and unicorn coloring pages sit in the same Fantasy category.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I find free monster coloring pages?
Right here. All 15 monster coloring pages on this page are free, and every one downloads as a print ready PDF sized for US Letter paper. You do not need an account and there is no watermark on the sheet. Click any design above, then use the download button on its page to get the PDF.
Are monster coloring pages good for kids?
They are, and for a reason most coloring subjects cannot claim. A monster has no correct colors. A child who worries about coloring a horse the wrong shade has nothing to get wrong here, so the page becomes a place to experiment rather than a test. Monster sheets also help with bedtime fear. A grinning monster under the bed that a child has colored themselves is a much smaller thing than the one they imagined.
What are the scariest monster coloring pages?
Spiky Monster Sitting on a Rock and Grinning Monster Face Close Up are the two with real teeth, and they are the closest this set gets to scary. Both stay cartoon rather than horror. Every monster on this page is drawn friendly by design, because these sheets are made for children. For a spookier session, try our ghost coloring pages instead.
Are there realistic monster coloring pages?
The detailed tier is the closest match. Spiky Monster Sitting on a Rock and Tentacled Monster Rising From the Water carry proper scale and sucker detail and are drawn with creature anatomy rather than cartoon proportions. A monster is imaginary, so realistic here means textured and anatomically consistent rather than lifelike. If you want that level of line work on a real animal, the dragon coloring pages run to the same depth.