Heart Coloring Pages

A heart is the first shape most children learn to draw that is not a circle, a square or a triangle, and it is the one shape that reads the same to a four year old and to an adult unwinding after work. That is why this page holds two collections at once. These 15 free printable heart coloring pages start with a single bold outline a toddler can fill with one crayon and finish with a heart shaped mandala that will take an adult an hour. Every sheet downloads as a free PDF sized for US Letter paper, so you can print one at the kitchen table or thirty for a classroom.

The simple heart coloring pages come first, because that is what most people arrive looking for. Big Simple Heart Outline is the plainest page on the site: one heart, one very thick line, nothing else. Heart With A Crown adds three jeweled points to pick out while the heart underneath stays open. Two Interlocking Hearts overlaps a matching pair so the small shape where they cross belongs to both. Heart With Wings spreads three rows of rounded feathers on each side, and Heart Balloons On Strings floats three of them at different heights with long strings to trace.

Five sheets in the middle put the heart into a scene or hand you a job to do. Smiling Cartoon Heart Character grows a face, two arms and a pair of little shoes, and it is the page children under six choose first. Heart Held In Two Hands cups a plain heart between two open palms, which makes it the obvious thank you card. Heart With A Blank Ribbon Banner leaves its banner deliberately empty so you can letter a name across it. Heart Made Of Flowers has no heart outline at all and lets your eye close the shape, and Heart Inside A Leafy Wreath rings a small heart with veined leaves that overlap.

The last five are the heart coloring pages for adults, and they earn that label through the drawing rather than through tiny lines. Heart Shaped Mandala is the centerpiece, a mandala whose every ring follows the heart outline instead of sitting in a circle. Zentangle Patterned Heart breaks its inside into bands of stripes, grids and teardrops with no two areas alike. Heart Made Of Swirling Vines draws the whole shape from two leafy vines. Polka Dot Heart scatters open circles of every size, and Heart Filled With Small Hearts packs over a hundred little outlines into rows that curve with the big shape. If you want more of this kind of work, the zen and spiritual pages and the floral patterns run to the same depth.

One technique is worth passing on, because it is what separates a heart that glows from a heart that sits flat. Color the shape in one shade and it reads as a sticker. Instead, press hardest around the outside edge and ease off as you travel inward, leaving the middle almost bare. That single gradient makes a flat outline look rounded, and it works with crayon, pencil or marker. On the patterned sheets, run the same trick per section rather than across the whole heart. Pick one shade, use it in three or four places spread around the design, then choose the next. Repeating a color is what makes a busy page look planned instead of chaotic.

These pages stay evergreen on purpose. If you want cards, cupids and dated designs, the Valentine's Day coloring pages cover that separately, and the two sets deliberately share no subjects.