3 Beautiful Butterfly Coloring Pages to Download & Print

These butterfly coloring pages are anxiously awaiting your bright, cheerful and different colors! Download and print these free butterfly coloring sheets, grab your crayons or colored pencils and maybe a little glitter to create beautiful butterfly pictures ready to flutter in the breeze.

Butterfly Coloring page pdf file shown printed on white paper and painted by a child with acrylic paint on a bright background with child hand and paint brush — Let’s color the free printable coloring pages of butterflies!

Free Printable Butterfly Coloring Pages

These free coloring pages feature simple butterfly sketches with wide dark outlines of black lines and are great for younger kids with the fatter crayons or colored pencils of bright colors and make a great painting activity for kids of all ages and adults.

Gorgeous Butterfly Facts for Kids

Butterflies are insects and are found in nearly every corner of the world.
A butterfly plays during the day flitting and fluttering their brightly colorful patterned wings.
Don’t touch a butterfly or you could accidentally knock off their dusty scales.
When a butterfly rests, they usually hold their wings vertically above their body.
Butterflies have club tipped antennae.
Their life cycle has four stages – egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and adult.

Related: These detailed pictures as a printable template for butterfly painting

butterfly coloring pages painting with paints and paint brush on brightly colored table with text - butterfly coloring pages — Butterfly wings are large enough that you can use paint instead of crayons, colored pencils or markers.

Collection of Free Butterfly Coloring Pages

We are celebrating all things butterfly with this original butterfly coloring pages collection with three unique pages of the beautiful insects.

You can color the butterfly wings of different shapes, sizes and uniquely patterned to match real life like monarch butterflies or use this digital download to create your own butterfly wing patterns as a great way to practice fine motor skills.

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3 butterflies fluttering around coloring page in black ink - pdf screenshot — Look at the intricate patterns on the butterflies wings just ready for you to color!

1. 3 Butterflies Flying Coloring Page

Our first coloring page has three fluttering butterflies flying around the sky. Each is original with uniquely pattern wings. You could color them the same color combination or make each one a different color palette. While it is a simple design, it includes intricate designs of the butterfly’s wings.

lots and lots of butterflies coloring page pdf in black ink — So many beautiful butterflies all in one place for coloring fun!

2. Lots & Lots of Butterflies Coloring Page

This is literally a printable page of butterflies! These beauties seem to be flying on and off the page and will make a beautiful, bright picture when completed. There are so many coloring options, it’s definitely a page your kids will want to print another copy and color again. I love the unique butterflies perfect for coloring time.

Single beautiful butterfly coloring page pdf with large open spaces for color — Big, spacious areas for painting or for younger kids learning to color.

3. Big Beautiful Butterfly Coloring Page

Our last coloring page is a single butterfly picture that takes up the entire page – a large butterfly! I love the gorgeous intricacies of the butterfly’s wings. This is a lovely coloring page for kids of all ages or adults:

Younger kids: big fat crayons, washable markers or chunky colored pencils all work really well without needing a lot of fine motor control to stay inside the lines…if that is what they want to do!
Older kids: use paint or get really creative with the color palettes with colored pencils and crayons.
Adults: spend some relaxing time being creative in a soothings and de-stressing kinda way making a beautiful butterfly picture all your own through mindfulness activities inspiring creative skills.

Download & Print Free Butterfly Coloring Pages pdf Here

These coloring pages are sized for standard letter printer paper dimensions – 8.5 x 11 inches and can be printed at home or in the classroom with black ink.

Supplies You Will Need for Pages of Butterflies Coloring Fun

Something to color with: crayons, colored pencils, water color paints, acrylic paints or markers
Something to decorate with: glitter, glue or what about glitter glue?
The printed butterfly coloring pages template pdf — see the pink button below to download & print

More Butterfly Printables & Fun from Kids Activities Blog

You can find literally hundreds and hundreds of free coloring pages for kids and adults right here on KAB!
Learn how to draw a butterfly with this printable easy tutorial.
Grab this free butterfly coloring sheet!
I love these simple printable butterfly coloring pages that work great for kids of all ages.
Need a more challenging coloring page? Check out our zentangle butterfly that is ready for colorful doodles or our butterfly heart coloring page which is really lovely.
If you have butterflies, you need flowers! Grab one of our most favorite flower coloring pages.
Make your own DIY butterfly feeder and homemade butterfly food.
Make a butterfly suncatcher!
Make a butterfly paper craft.

Which was your favorite of the butterfly coloring pages?