Outer Space Coloring Pages
19 free printable pages, ready to download and print.
Free printable outer space coloring pages featuring rockets, planets, astronauts, aliens, and deep space scenes.
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Space is the one subject where nobody can correct your color choices. A purple planet and a magenta nebula are as defensible as anything in a telescope image, which makes these 19 outer space coloring pages unusually forgiving for nervous colorists. The set runs from a rocket lifting off in thick smoke to a black hole bending starlight around its accretion disk. Most designs download as a free printable PDF sized for US Letter paper, 8.5 by 11 inches.
The line art splits into simple and detailed. Simple sheets use bold, widely spaced outlines that survive a shaky grip, which suits ages 3 to 6, when fine motor control develops fastest. Start younger kids on Rocket Ship Launching With Smoke and Fire or Cute Alien Waving From a Flying Saucer UFO. Detailed sheets pack fine texture into rock, machinery and star fields. Mars Rover Exploring the Red Rocky Surface and Detailed Constellation Map With Star Patterns hold an adult's attention for the better part of an hour.
Teachers reach for these during astronomy units, and several sheets double as study aids. Solar System With All the Planets in Order puts all eight planets on one page in sequence, so coloring doubles as memorization. Moon Landing Scene With Flag and Lunar Module matches the Apollo 11 landing of July 1969. Every page linked above downloads free as a printable PDF with no sign-up and no account.
Several subjects appear twice at different difficulty levels, which helps when two children of different ages are working side by side. The space station, the black hole and the rocket launch each have a simple and a detailed treatment, so Space Station Floating Above the Earth With Solar Panels and Space Station With Solar Panels Orbiting Earth can be printed as a pair. On the hardware, resist reaching for gray. Spacecraft are wrapped in gold and amber multi-layer insulation and the solar arrays are close to a blue black, so a metallic gold pencil and a dark indigo will do far more for Space Telescope Floating Above Earth in Orbit than any amount of silver.
More line art in this direction: Aircraft, Transportation and Superheroes.
Frequently Asked Questions
What order are the planets in?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. That is eight planets, not nine, since the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006. Solar System With All the Planets in Order lays them out in sequence on a single sheet, which is why it works as a classroom handout.
Which space coloring pages are easiest for preschoolers?
Start with the simple designs. Astronaut Walking on the Surface of the Moon and Swirling Stars and Colorful Nebula Galaxies give small hands large open shapes and clear boundaries. Save the constellation map and the black hole scenes for ages 8 and up, because their fine detail frustrates most 4 year olds.
What paper should I print space coloring pages on?
Standard 20 lb printer paper handles crayons and colored pencils. Move up to 65 lb cardstock for markers, because space scenes invite large dark backgrounds and thin paper bleeds and buckles under that much ink. Cardstock also keeps the linework crisp on the detailed sheets.
How do you color a realistic galaxy or nebula?
Layer the dark colors first, then add the light on top. Cover the background in deep blue, violet and magenta with light pressure, build three or four passes, then push black into the edges for depth. Add stars last with a white gel pen, which is the only reliable way to get bright points over dark pigment.
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