15 March Coloring Pages (Free Printable PDFs)

What belongs in a March set

March is a mixed month, and the pages show it. You get three themes that fit it best: St. Patrick's Day, wild spring weather and the first signs of new life.

St. Patrick's Day comes first for most classrooms. The leprechaun here is a friendly shoemaker with a hammer and a tiny shoe, standing by a round door in a tree. The parade page has three kids with a big drum, a flute and a pennant marching past shops called Bakery, Books, Cafe and Toys. Green hills, three sheep and a white cottage sit behind the shamrock.

Then comes the weather. On the windy day, a gust flips a girl's umbrella and steals a boy's hat while petals swirl across the sky. The kite page has a smiling boy, a puppy and a big diamond kite on a bow tail. Rain gets its turn with the rain boots, where a frog peeks out of one boot, and the umbrella in the rain, where a puppy in a coat and two ducklings enjoy the puddle. A rainbow between two smiling clouds is a fine way to end a wet week.

New life rounds it out. A mother robin brings a worm to a bird nest with three chicks and two blue eggs. Three big tulips stand in front of a windmill, a ladybug rests on a green leaf, and the spring meadow winds under a wooden bridge. For the littlest kids, the kawaii spring page has a big bunny in a flower crown, a chick, a frog and two smiling tulips.

March coloring pages by age

• Ages 2 to 4: The ladybug has five round spots to fill, which makes it good for counting. The rainbow is another easy one.
• Ages 3 to 6: The pot of gold, the rain boots, the tulips and the kite all have big shapes with a small surprise or two.
• Ages 5 to 9: The leprechaun, the windy day and the first day of spring each show a person in a full scene.
• Ages 7 to 12: The parade has the most going on, with a waving crowd behind the marchers. The meadow also suits this group.

All those greens

A March set can turn into one big green blob, so mix it up. Use a light green for hills, a medium green for the shamrock and a dark green for the hat. Each leaf of the shamrock has an inner shape, which is a nice place for a different shade. The hearts and dots on it can be yellow or pink, and they will pop against the green.

The gold coins are worth a little care. Color them yellow, then add a touch of orange along one edge of each coin. Leave one tiny white spot. A dark pot makes that gold look even brighter, so do the coins first and fill in the pot last. That way, the dark crayon stays away from the yellow.

Rain, wind and rainbows

Rainbows have an order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. The rainbow page has six bands, so a child can say the colors out loud while working from the top. Keep your crayon inside each band and turn the sheet as you go around the curve.

Rain scenes look best with a gray or pale blue sky and one bright object. A yellow raincoat or a patterned umbrella will jump off the page. The umbrella has a different little design in each panel, so older kids can give each one its own color. Puddles look wet when you leave a few white streaks.

Show the wind by adding it yourself. On the windy day page, color the swirl lines pale blue, then draw a few more with a pencil. Long curved lines will make the petals seem to fly.

In like a lion, out like a lamb

There is an old saying that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, which means the month starts rough and ends mild. These pages can act it out. Hang the windy day at the left side of a wall for the lion, since it has a flipped umbrella and a stolen hat. Hang the spring meadow at the far right for the lamb. Then add the rain and kite pages in between as the month goes on.

Kids can vote each morning. Is today a lion or a lamb? Move a paper arrow along the wall to match. Weather rarely follows the saying, and that is what makes it worth checking. The first day of spring usually lands around March 20, so save that page for the third week, when the last snowman in the drawing can melt along with whatever is left outside.

Leprechaun plans

In Irish folk tales, leprechauns are shoemakers, and that is why ours holds a hammer and a tiny shoe. Older kids in a class may know that tale. Younger ones can guess who the shoe is for.

Plenty of classrooms build a leprechaun trap in the week before St. Patrick's Day. Use the back of the leprechaun page as the plan. Students draw the trap, label each part and list what they will need, such as a shoebox, a paper ladder and some shiny coins from the pot of gold. It is a neat little design task, and nobody minds when the trap comes up empty.

If your school does a green day, the parade page makes a fair contest. Ask each student to use as many greens as they can find, then count them. Wearing green is the custom on March 17, so a kid in a green shirt can match the marchers.

Setting up the month

The set works well for a monthly classroom plan. Start with the rain and wind pages, move to the St. Patrick's Day group in the week before March 17, then finish with the spring pages. Press Download all at the top of this page for one file with every drawing, or press PDF on a card for one sheet. Pages fit US Letter paper, and A4 users should select Fit to page. A child can also press Color to fill in a page on a screen.

March ideas for home and class

Keep a weather chart. Each morning, students mark the sky as sunny, rainy or windy, then pick the matching page to color at the end of the week. Your class will see how fast March changes.

Hide paper coins for a treasure hunt. Cut the loose coins from a spare pot of gold sheet, tuck them around the room and let kids count what they find. They can also write a story about what the leprechaun does with the tiny shoe.

For a science link, look at the bird nest page together, then ask what the chicks need each day. The tulip and the meadow can lead to planting a few seeds in a cup by the window.

You can use every page for free at home and in class, and our free use license explains how. Find more on our spring coloring pages, or go back to the February coloring pages if you missed a few.

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