House Coloring Pages

A house coloring page is the first drawing most children attempt without being asked. A square, a triangle on top, a door in the middle, and the page is a home. That instinct is what this collection is built on, and then it keeps going well past the square. These 15 free printable house coloring pages start with a house so simple a two year old can fill it and end with a three story Victorian that will hold an adult for an hour. In between you get the homes that are nothing like a house at all: a treehouse, an igloo, a boat with a chimney. Every sheet downloads as a free PDF sized for US Letter paper, so you can print one at the kitchen table or a class set for Monday morning.

The easy house coloring pages come first, because that is what most people arrive looking for. Simple House With A Sun is the plainest page on the site after the plain heart: thick lines, one door, two windows and a sun in the corner. House With A Big Front Door blows the door up until it fills the wall and adds a ribbon of chimney smoke to follow. Two Story House With A Garden Path is the house children actually draw, seen from the end of a wide paving stone path that runs off the bottom of the page. Cottage With Flowers puts pots either side of the door and runs a flowering vine up one wall, and Log Cabin stacks seven courses of round logs with their notched ends crossing at both corners.

Five sheets in the middle are homes that break the rules. Gingerbread House drips icing from both roof edges and leans a candy cane on either side of the door, which makes it the one page here that belongs with the Christmas coloring pages as much as it belongs on this hub. Tiny House On Wheels bolts a real little house to a trailer. Igloo is the geometry exercise of the set, more than fifty separate snow blocks curving around a dome. Houseboat drops a cottage onto a wooden hull, and Tree House wedges a log cabin into the fork of a heavy trunk with a rope ladder down to the ground.

The last five are the house coloring pages for adults and older children, and they earn that through architecture rather than through tiny lines. A Frame Cabin is the calmest, a single steep triangle banded top to bottom with siding. Lighthouse Keeper Cottage carries over a hundred individually outlined stone blocks between its walls and its rocky base. Farmhouse And Barn sets a porched farmhouse against a gambrel roofed barn with a lattice windmill between them. City Row Houses gives you five joined fronts and a whole street to plan, and Victorian House is the centerpiece, three stories of fish scale shingles, bay windows and porch spindles. If you want more buildings after those, the castle coloring pages run to the same depth with towers instead of turrets.

One habit is worth passing on, because it is what separates a house that sits on the paper from one that looks built. Color the walls in a single flat shade and the house reads as a cardboard cutout. Instead, pick one direction for your light, then keep every surface facing that way paler than every surface facing away from it. On the Victorian, that means the turret catches light on one side and darkens on the other. On the A frame, it means one roof slope stays pale and the other goes deeper. Nothing about this requires blending. Two shades of the same color used consistently will do it, and the effect works just as well with crayon as with pencil.

The gardens around a house are worth the same attention as the house itself. If your child finishes the cottage and wants more to plant, the garden coloring pages pick up exactly where the window boxes here leave off.