24 Girl Coloring Pages (Free Printable PDFs)

Who you will meet in this set

The quiet pages are a good place to start. A girl in round glasses sits on a huge cushion on the reading page, with a cat asleep by her feet. Another holds very still as a big butterfly comes down to her hand in a daisy garden.

Other pages are full of motion. The swing page has braids flying out at both sides. The girl with long hair has so much of it that the wind fills the whole sky, with small flowers tucked in along the way.

Some drawings fit a special day. There is a party page with a wrapped gift and two cupcakes, an Easter egg hunt with a bunny peeking out of a bush, and a football cheerleader in front of a full crowd. Cold weather brings the snow angel, drawn from straight above. For a wet day, the umbrella page has a puppy in its own coat and two ducklings in the puddle.

Friends show up too. The best friends hold hands in a park, and the lemonade stand has a girl and a boy open for business. For a touch of fantasy, try the mermaid sisters, a princess with a puppy or an anime girl with long twin tails. We keep many more on our princess coloring pages and mermaid coloring pages.

Coloring hair, skin and clothes

Let your child decide who each girl is. The lines do not set a skin tone or a hair color, so a kid can make a girl who looks like herself, her sister or her best friend. A pack of crayons or pencils made for skin tones helps here, since one peach crayon cannot cover every face. Start the face with light pressure. You can always add a second layer.

Hair is the fun part. Long hair looks best when each stroke follows the way it falls, so start at the top of the head and pull down. Leave a thin pale stripe along the curve for shine. Curly hair works another way. On the girl with flowers or the mermaid with curly hair, use small circles and two shades of one color. The round puffs on the girl with ice cream take the same small circles.

Clothes are a chance to try patterns. The dots on the girl with two balloons can be one color on a paler skirt. Busy pages need a plan, so pick the dress color before you touch the background. A light dress stands out against dark trees. A bold dress looks great on a pale sky.

Girl coloring pages for each age

• Ages 3 to 5: Start with the girl with two balloons. Next, try the kawaii girl, who has a round head and huge eyes.
• Ages 5 to 7: The swing page and the best friends have clear shapes and a few small flowers to fill.
• Ages 7 to 10: Try the baking page, with jars on a shelf and tools on hooks, or the reading page with its rows of books.
• Ages 10 to 14: The anime girl has long, thin strands of hair and cherry blossoms in the corners. Older kids will want sharp pencils.

Pick a page for the day you are having

Got a birthday this week? Color the party page, fold the sheet in half and write a note inside. A dance class might enjoy the ballerina just before a recital, and the cheerleader suits a game day, with GO! across her top and a WIN pennant on the grass.

Two kids at the table can each take the best friends page and compare. One child might give both girls matching dresses, while the other goes wild with the balloons. If you only have ten minutes, pick the kawaii girl and color just the dress and the star. The rest can wait for tomorrow.

Animal lovers have plenty to choose from. The bike page has a puppy riding in the basket, the princess holds one on her lap, and the rain page has a puppy of its own. Ask your child to name the dog before picking a color for its coat.

Backgrounds worth a second look

A lot of the fun on these sheets sits behind the girl. The ice cream page has a seaside boardwalk and a cart with a striped umbrella, so pick two colors for the stripes before you begin. A row of tulips and a windmill stand behind the flower crown page. Try long bands of red, yellow and pink, like the fields you see in photos of Holland. The butterfly page has a brick wall and a birdhouse, and a soft red with pale gray lines will keep the wall from taking over.

The ballerina has the best setting of all, a stage with heavy curtains and footlights. Dark red or deep blue curtains make her pale tutu stand out. Add yellow near the footlights and let it fade as it goes up her dress, and she will look lit from below.

Make a one day comic

Several of these pages can link up into a story. Print four or five and lay them in a row to plan one big day. She might start with the bike ride, stop at the lemonade stand, get a cone on the boardwalk and curl up with the reading page at bedtime. It does not matter that each girl looks different. Your child can color them all with the same hair and the same shirt, so they turn into one character.

Staple the sheets and write one line at the bottom of each. Older kids can add speech bubbles on sticky notes, so they can change the words later. The bike page also opens an easy talk about safety, since the girl wears a helmet and rides on a quiet road.

Getting them on paper

Press PDF on a card to save one drawing. For the full set, press Download all at the top of this page and you get a single file, one drawing to a sheet. Everything fits US Letter paper. If yours is A4, turn on Fit to page in the print box. To skip the paper, press Color and fill in a drawing on a phone, tablet or computer. Markers can soak through thin paper, so slide an extra sheet underneath.

Story starters and class walls

Each page works as a story starter. Ask where the girl on the bike is riding, or what the baker is making in that huge bowl. Young kids can tell you the answer, and you can write it on the back.

Teachers can run an easy "what I like to do" wall. Every student picks the page closest to a hobby, colors it and adds one sentence underneath. The reading page also makes a nice sign for a book corner.

These are coloring pages for girls, and for any kid who likes them. A brother may well ask for the lemonade stand or the bike. All pages are free for home, class and library use, and our free use license has the simple rules.

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