15 Fruit Coloring Pages (Free Printable PDFs)

Where each fruit lives

Almost every drawing has one giant fruit with a happy face and a small scene around it. The banana stands in a jungle with a monkey at its feet. A lemon sits on a cafe table by the sea. The orange rests on a kitchen cutting board next to a tall glass of juice, and the mango hangs low from a shady tree while a parrot watches.

Picnic fans get two pages. The cherries sit on a checked blanket with a pie nearby, and the watermelon slice has three ants marching past it. The strawberry grows in a garden with two baby berries at its sides. The grapes hang from a wooden arbor at the edge of a vineyard.

A few pages bring many fruits together. The fruit basket and the fruit bowl are the classic picks, and the kawaii fruit page lines up nine little characters under a rainbow. You can find pizza, cupcakes and more on our food coloring pages.

A page for Sunday school

The fruit of the spirit page was made for Sunday school or a Bible club. One big tree holds nine different fruits, and each has a name tag such as love, joy or peace. A sign at the bottom gives the title and the verse. It has no faces, so it stays simple. Leave the tags pale so the words are easy to read.

Fruit coloring pages for little kids and big kids

• Ages 3 to 5: The apple, the strawberry and the lemon have one large shape. Color the fruit and call it done.
• Ages 5 to 8: Have them finish the scene too. The pear has crates to fill, and the pineapple has a crab, shells and a beach ball in the sand.
• Ages 5 to 10: The fruit bowl and the kawaii fruit have more parts that sit close together. The fruit of the spirit tree also fits here, and its tags give early readers words to practice.
• Ages 10 and up: Older kids can treat the fruit bowl as a still life and work on shading.

Coloring fruit that looks ripe

Real fruit is rarely one color, so use two. Give the apple a red coat, then add a little yellow near the top where light would hit it. The pear goes well with green and a soft yellow side. Blend where they meet by going back and forth lightly with both crayons.

Each fruit has its own small trick. The mango drawing has a curved space at the top made for a red blush, with orange and yellow below it. On the pineapple, the small V marks can each get a touch of dark gold. Strawberry seeds stay yellow or pale if you color around them. If that is too fiddly, color the berry red and dot the seeds on top with a gel pen.

Grapes take patience. Leave the small curved mark on each grape white, since it reads as a shine, and vary your purple from one grape to the next. A bunch looks much fuller with two or three shades. Watermelon has three bands, so go from pink or red to a pale strip and finish with dark green on the rind.

Shiny fruit needs a highlight. Leave one small spot of bare paper on the side of a cherry or an apple. That tiny white mark makes it look round and fresh. Faces stay cute if you keep the eyes dark and the white dots clean.

Print one or print them all

The PDF button on a card gives you that single fruit. Press Download all at the top of this page for one file with the full set, a drawing on each sheet. Pages are made for US Letter paper. If you use A4, select Fit to page. There is also a Color button on each card, so a child can fill one in on a phone, tablet or computer. For a class set, print one clean copy and use the school copier.

Small friends to look for

Each big fruit has a tiny neighbor, and young kids love to find them before they start. The apple has a small worm friend. The strawberry has a bee, the mango has a parrot in the tree, and the pineapple has a crab on the sand. Three ants march past the watermelon, and a monkey waits at the foot of the banana.

Make a quick game out of it. Name an animal and let your child race to find the right sheet. Then give that small friend the brightest color on the page, so it stands out next to the giant fruit. Ask what the worm is doing in the orchard, or why the ants are all headed the same way. The answers tend to get silly, and that is half the fun.

Color it, then taste it

A fruit coloring page can help with a picky eater, since a child who has spent ten minutes on a mango is a bit more curious about a real one. Pick a fruit your child has never tried. Color that page first, then cut a few small pieces at snack time. Nobody has to like it, and one tiny bite counts.

Keep score on the back of the sheet. Draw a smile, a flat line or a frown beside the name of each fruit, and date it. Kids can try the same fruit again a month later and see if the mark changes. The lemon page is a good one for this, since a sour face always gets a laugh. Teachers who run a tasting at school should check for food allergies with each family first.

Learning with fruit at home and at school

Fruit is a great way to practice the alphabet. Hang the pages in order on a wall: A for apple, B for banana, C for cherries, G for grapes. Your child can say each sound as you point.

Color sorting comes next. Color the pages, cut out the fruit and sort them into red, yellow and green piles. Then count each pile, or make a pattern on the table such as apple, banana, apple, banana.

Older students can write about a page too. Ask them to pick one fruit and describe its color, its shape and how it feels in the hand, without naming it. A partner then guesses which page it is.

Take the finished pages along on a trip to the store and see who can spot each one. Older kids can look up where mangoes or pineapples grow, then find the place on a map. Teachers can also set up a pretend market. Students price their colored fruit, hand out paper money and practice simple math.

For a game, cut a page into four or six pieces to make a quick puzzle. The kawaii fruit page works well because every fruit has a face to match up.

You can use every page for free at home, at school or at church, and our free use license gives the short version of the rules. For more summer ideas, visit our summer coloring pages.

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