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12 Free Butterfly Coloring Pages

Butterfly wings are the original coloring canvas — perfectly symmetrical, endlessly customizable, impossible to get wrong. These twelve free printable butterfly coloring pages mix big wing-pattern designs with tiny story scenes: a picnic with a caterpillar, a parade with ladybugs, a nap on a kitten's nose. All drawn with bold, clean lines and sized for US Letter printing.

Butterfly coloring page: a butterfly landing on a big smiling sunflower

Sunflower Landing

A butterfly touches down on a smiling sunflower in this free printable coloring page. Two classic shapes, one happy meeting.
Butterfly coloring page: a caterpillar and a butterfly having a picnic together on a mushroom table

Caterpillar Picnic

Before-and-after, sharing sandwiches: a caterpillar and butterfly picnic on a mushroom. A sweet way to talk metamorphosis while you color.
Butterfly coloring page: butterflies painting a rainbow across the sky with tiny paintbrushes

Sky Painters

A team of butterflies paints the rainbow into place on this printable page. Seven stripes to fill means every crayon gets a turn.
Butterfly coloring page: a butterfly garden with a watering can, daisies and tulips

Garden Watering

Daisies, tulips, and a friendly watering can fill this butterfly garden coloring page. A calm springtime sheet with lots of petals.
Butterfly coloring page: a butterfly with big swirly wings resting on a giant strawberry

Strawberry Rest

Swirly wings meet a giant strawberry on this free butterfly coloring page. The seeds and swirls reward careful little colorers.
Butterfly coloring page: a butterfly parade with ladybugs and bees carrying flags

Bug Parade

Butterflies lead, ladybugs and bees follow, everyone carries flags. This bug parade coloring page is busy in the best way.
Make your own custom butterfly page →

These twelve are just the pre-made ones. Type any idea — “a butterfly landing on a big smiling sunflower” or something only your family would think of — and our generator draws a brand-new page in about twenty seconds. Add a name in bubble letters, too.

Butterfly coloring page: a butterfly sipping from a teacup-shaped flower

Teacup Flower

A butterfly sips from a flower shaped exactly like a teacup on this printable sheet. Fancy? Extremely.
Butterfly coloring page: a butterfly family flying over a meadow of hearts and flowers

Meadow Family

A whole butterfly family glides over a heart-dotted meadow in this free coloring page. Big wings, small wings, lots of love.
Butterfly coloring page: one big friendly butterfly with wings full of hearts, stars and swirls to color

Hearts and Swirls

One giant butterfly, wings packed with hearts, stars, and swirls. This pattern-style coloring page is the set's slow-burn favorite.
Butterfly coloring page: a butterfly gently resting on a sleeping kitten's nose

Kitten Nose

A butterfly lands on a sleeping kitten's nose — that's it, that's the page. Guaranteed "awwww" before coloring begins.
Butterfly coloring page: a butterfly leading a line of baby ducklings across a little pond bridge

Duckling Crossing

A butterfly crossing-guard leads ducklings over a pond bridge on this printable coloring page. Count the ducklings as you color them.
Butterfly coloring page: a butterfly sheltering under a leaf umbrella in gentle rain

Leaf Umbrella

Gentle rain, one leaf umbrella, one dry and cozy butterfly. A quiet, rainy-day coloring page for quiet, rainy days.

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Butterfly coloring page FAQs

Are these butterfly pages good for learning about butterflies?

A few sneak some science in — the caterpillar picnic page is a nice excuse to talk about metamorphosis, and the flower pages pair well with a garden walk. Mostly, though, they're just lovely to color.

Can I print these butterfly coloring pages for a classroom?

Yes, print as many as you need for home or classroom use. The full set downloads as one PDF, which makes running off twenty copies before craft time much less painful.

What ages are they for?

The big-wing pattern pages work for ages 3 and up; the busier scenes suit 5–8. Symmetry lovers of any age tend to linger on the heart-and-swirl wings page.

Can I create my own butterfly page?

Type any idea into our coloring page generator — "a butterfly landing on a birthday cake," "a butterfly with rainbow polka-dot wings" — and print a one-of-a-kind page in seconds, with your child's name on it if you like.