Mother's Day Coloring Pages

Almost every page in this set is two people. That is unusual for a coloring subject, and it introduces a specific problem: two figures, two skin tones, two sets of clothing, and a very easy path to both of them ending up the same. These 14 Mother's Day coloring pages cover hugs, bouquets, breakfast in bed, bedtime stories and a mother holding a baby. Every design downloads as a free printable PDF sized for US Letter paper.

Mother and Child Hugging With Hearts Around Them and Beautiful Bouquet of Flowers With Ribbon and Bow are the two most-printed, and the bouquet is the one that works best folded into a card. Breakfast in Bed Scene With Flowers and Tray and Mom Reading a Bedtime Story to a Child in Bed have the most to fill.

When two figures overlap, give them clearly different clothing colors, one warm, one cool, and keep the background lighter than both. Otherwise the two merge into a single mass and the embrace, which is the entire point of most of these drawings, stops reading.

The flower pages are the other half of the set and the ones that work best as gifts. Gorgeous Tulip Bouquet in a Decorative Vase, Beautiful Rose Arrangement in a Decorative Vase and Flower Garden in Full Bloom With Butterflies all reward shading each petal darker at its base than at its outer edge, which is the one habit that stops a bouquet looking flat. Best Mom Banner With Flowers and Decorative Elements prints well enlarged. Mom and Kids Cooking Together in the Kitchen, Mom and Daughter Sitting Together With Flowers and Mother With a Newborn Baby Wrapped in a Blanket are the remaining two-figure scenes.

Related line art: Father's Day, Flowers and Valentine's Day.