Football Field Coloring Page

Imagine sitting at the very top of the stands. This football field coloring page shows the whole playing area stretching away from you, from the GUEST end zone at the bottom to the HOME end zone at the top. Both teams line up at the 50, the lights are ready, and a goal post stands at the far end. It is a map of the game as much as a picture.

This one is detailed. It works best for ages 8 and up, and for adults who like tidy, careful work. Allow an hour or so, and split it across two sittings if you want.

Reading the field

Start at the bottom and follow the numbers up: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and then back down again. Notice how they shrink as they get farther away. The short dashes in the middle are hash marks, and they show where the ball is placed before a play. Small ticks along the sides mark the lines in between.

Around the field you have a running track, seats on both sides and a curved stand at the far end. Every small circle in the stands is one fan. Up at the top sits a scoreboard showing a 0 to 0 tie with 15:00 on the clock, which means the game has not started yet.

Football field coloring page color ideas

The grass is the easy part, but try mowing stripes for a real stadium look. Color every other section between the yard lines in a darker green. It takes more time, and it looks wonderful.

The end zones are the place to use team colors. Fill HOME with the color of the team you love, and GUEST with its rival. Leave the words white so they stand out. The track could be a brick red or a soft tan.

• Team one in red helmets, team two in blue
• Fans in a mix of two colors, like a real home crowd
• A pale blue or sunset orange sky at the top

Tips for a page with many small parts

• Use colored pencils. Markers are hard to control in the tiny fan circles.
• Work from top to bottom, and keep your hand off the finished area.
• Do all the fans in one color at a time. It goes faster and looks even.
• Rest a ruler along each yard line if you want very straight stripes.

Teach the game with it

New to football? This page makes a great lesson. Point to the line of players and explain that each team starts on its own side of the ball. Then use a coin as the ball and a pencil to move it up the field. Each turn, roll a die and move that many tens of yards. Reach the end zone and you score six.

Teachers can use the numbers for a lesson on measuring and skip counting by tens.

Real measurements

The whole American football field is 360 feet long and 160 feet wide. That length includes an end zone 30 feet deep at each end. Lines cross the field every 5 yards, and white numbers mark every 10 yards. People began calling it a gridiron in the 1880s, because of how those lines looked. Orange pylons mark the corners of each end zone, and the crossbar of the goal post sits 10 feet off the ground.

Older fans can go further and mark a drive on the page. Draw a line from where the ball started to where the team scored, then note each first down with a small dot. It works like a real chart from a broadcast, and it helps a new fan follow the game while watching.

See the game up close

Move from the top seats to the sideline with the football coach coloring page. For the same crowd at night, with fireworks overhead, print the football stadium coloring page.

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