Fairy Tale Coloring Pages
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Magical fairy tale coloring pages featuring classic unbranded fairy tale characters, castles, and storybook scenes.
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Fairy tales are older and stranger than the versions most children meet. The Grimms collected stories that had been told aloud for generations, and the tidied endings came later. What survives intact is the imagery, a house made of gingerbread, a frog wearing a crown, a tower with one window, and that is what these fairy tale coloring pages draw on. Each downloads as a free printable PDF sized for US Letter paper, and none uses any studio's characters.
Gingerbread House in the Woods is the richest of these to color, because every architectural detail is a different sweet, icing, gumdrops, candy canes, biscuit walls, and it rewards using a different color for each. Frog Prince Wearing a Crown is the simplest and the funniest. Princess in a Castle Tower is the one that pairs naturally with a story being read aloud.
Read the tale first, then color it. A child who has just heard about a house made of sweets makes very different color choices from one handed the same sheet cold, and the page becomes a comprehension exercise without anyone calling it that.
The gingerbread house, the frog prince and the tower scene between them ask for three quite different techniques, which makes those a sensible trio to start with. The gingerbread house is a pattern exercise: many small elements, each needing a decision, and the discipline is repeating a handful of colors around the building rather than inventing a new one for every gumdrop. The frog prince is a two-color problem, since a frog is green and a crown is gold and almost nothing else on the page competes, which suits a child who finds a busy sheet overwhelming. The tower scene is the one with real background in it, and the stone wants the treatment stone always wants: vary the gray block by block and keep the mortar lines lighter than the blocks themselves.
More in this direction: Princesses, Castles and Reading.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are these based on Disney characters?
No. These are original drawings of traditional public-domain fairy tale imagery, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Snow White, Puss in Boots and the rest, with no licensed characters. That makes them free to use in classrooms, libraries and reading groups without restriction.
How do you color a gingerbread house?
Treat each element as the sweet it is meant to be. Warm brown for the biscuit walls, white or pale pink for icing, and a different bright color for each type of candy, repeating those colors around the house so it looks decorated rather than random. Leaving the icing almost white against the brown is what makes it read as icing.
Which fairy tales do these come from?
The gingerbread house is from Hansel and Gretel, the frog prince from the Grimm tale of the same name, and the tower scene evokes Rapunzel. The wider set draws on Grimm, Perrault and Hans Christian Andersen, all traditional European stories in the public domain, written down between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries but considerably older in oral form.
Which fairy tale page works best for a child who cannot read yet?
Three Little Pigs With Their Houses, because the whole story is carried by the three houses and a child can follow straw, sticks and brick without a word of text. It also gives a natural reason to use three different materials and three different colors, which turns the sheet into retelling rather than filling in.
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