Earth Day Coloring Pages

Celebrate the planet with our free Earth Day coloring pictures. Color the globe with its oceans and continents, kids planting a tree, a clean-up crew on the beach, recycling bins and animals in the habitats we're trying to protect. Teachers can pair them with an April science lesson, and families can use them to talk about small habits that help.

Earth Day coloring pictures on this page

  • Planet Earth: the globe alone, with a heart, held in hands or smiling
  • Reduce, reuse, recycle: the three-arrow symbol, sorting bins and items to match to the right bin
  • Planting: kids digging holes for saplings, seedlings in pots and community gardens
  • Clean-up days: volunteers with gloves and bags in a park and on a beach
  • Wildlife and habitats: sea turtles, bees, forests and coral reefs
  • Clean energy: wind turbines turning on a hill
  • Pledge posters: I promise to pages with space to write a goal

What Earth Day is

Earth Day is April 22 every year. The first one was held in the United States in 1970, when millions of people joined rallies and clean-ups to ask for cleaner air and water. It's now marked in countries around the world. A few facts for the coloring table: about 71 percent of Earth's surface is covered by water, which is why the globe is mostly blue. Trees take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. Recycling an aluminum can saves most of the energy needed to make a new one from scratch.

Earth Day activities to go with the pages

  • Print wisely: print on the back of used paper, or two pages per sheet. It's a small lesson in itself.
  • Sorting game: color and cut out the item cards, then sort them into paper, plastic, metal and compost.
  • Pledge wall: each child fills in a pledge page and the class hangs them together.
  • Color the continents: use an atlas to color land green and brown, oceans blue and the poles white.
  • Plant something: color a seedling page while real seeds soak, then plant them in a cup.
  • Use up old crayons: Earth Day is a good excuse to finish the broken ones before buying more.

Frequently asked questions

Are these Earth Day coloring pages free?

Yes. Every Earth Day coloring page here is free to print and download for personal and classroom use.

What colors do I use for the Earth?

Blue for the oceans, green and brown for land, tan for deserts and white for clouds and the ice at the poles. From space the planet looks mostly blue and white.

Are these Earth Day coloring sheets good for a classroom lesson?

Yes. The recycling, planting and habitat pages each match a common April lesson, and the pledge page works as a short writing prompt.

How can I make coloring pages less wasteful?

Print only what you'll use, choose draft or grayscale mode, use both sides of the paper and recycle finished pages that don't end up on the fridge.