Girl Coloring Pages

• Active girls: a soccer player mid-kick, a skateboarder on a ramp, a swimmer on the starting block and a rider on a horse
• Makers and thinkers: a girl wiring a robot, another looking through a telescope and one painting at an easel
• Friends together: two girls sharing headphones, a sleepover fort and a lemonade stand
• Girly designs: bows, heart-shaped sunglasses, a charm bracelet and a ruffled party dress with room to add patterns
• Portraits: faces with curls, braids, a bob, a headscarf and glasses, large enough to practice coloring skin and hair
• Quiet moments: reading in a window seat, watering plants and baking with a grandmother

Portrait pages are good practice for the two things kids find hardest: hair and skin.

For hair, color in the direction it grows, in long strokes from the part down to the tips. Leave a narrow strip uncolored where light would hit, and the hair looks shiny. Curly hair works better with small loops than with straight lines.

For skin, a single peach crayon doesn't cover everyone. Sets sold as skin-tone or multicultural crayons include a dozen or more shades from deep brown to pale pink. Let kids pick the shade that matches themselves, a friend or a character they've made up. A light layer of pink or red on the cheeks finishes a face.

Girly coloring pages are a style: bows, ruffles, hearts and flowers. Plenty of girls love them, plenty don't, and some boys do. Print what your kid asks for. Our coloring pages for boys and the girl pages overlap on purpose, with sports, animals and building on both.