Superhero Coloring Pages

• Flying heroes: caped heroes soaring over rooftops and landing on one knee
• Powers in action: a hero lifting a bus, one running at super speed with blur lines and one growing vines from the ground
• Kid heroes and sidekicks: a small hero in a towel cape and a loyal sidekick carrying the gadgets
• Animal heroes: a dog in a cape, a cat in a mask and a hamster guarding a tiny city
• Design-your-own sheets: a blank suit, an empty emblem, a mask template and a comic strip with empty panels
• Everyday heroes: a firefighter drawn with a cape
• Team scenes: five heroes standing together and a secret hideout full of screens

The design-your-own sheets work as a writing prompt as much as a coloring page. Walk kids through five questions before they pick up a crayon.

1. What's the hero's name? Combine a title and a silly noun, such as Captain Pancake or the Midnight Gecko.
2. What's the power? Flight, speed, strength, invisibility, talking to animals, or something odd like freezing time for ten seconds.
3. What's the weakness? Every good hero has one. It makes the story interesting.
4. What does the emblem look like? A star, a paw print or an initial fits inside the blank chest shape.
5. Who does the hero help? A city, a school, a neighborhood, the ocean.

For colors, comic artists often give a hero two or three bold colors that contrast, such as orange with teal or green with purple. Pick the suit colors first, then use them again on the cape, mask and boots so the costume looks planned.

Teachers use the empty comic panels for a short story with a beginning, a problem and a solution. The everyday hero page fits a unit on community helpers.