Princess Castle Coloring Page

This princess castle coloring page shows a tall castle with five towers, pointed roofs and three waving flags. A big arched door sits in the middle, and a stone path leads up to it through the grass. There are arched windows, a row of square wall tops, a sun in the sky and a pair of flowers by the path.

Straight lines make this one a little harder than a page with a single big figure. It is best for ages 5 to 10, and it usually takes 30 to 40 minutes. A ruler is not needed, but older kids may like using one for the wall lines.

Is this drawing right for your child?

Young kids can color the roofs and the door first, since those are the easiest parts. They might stop there, and that is fine. Kids of seven or eight can usually finish the whole castle, including the small windows and the stones along the path.

Teachers can use it during a unit on the Middle Ages. Children can label the tower, wall, gate and flag, which turns a quiet coloring page into a small lesson on building words.

Painting the walls and roofs

Real castles are mostly gray or tan stone, so those shades give a true look. For a fairy tale feel, try soft purple walls with bright red roofs, or pink walls with blue roofs. The flags can match the roofs, or each one can have its own color.

Gold or yellow makes the windows look as if candles are burning inside. A brown door with a black handle stands out well against pale walls.

Princess castle coloring page tips

• Pick your roof color first, then choose walls that look good next to it.
• Color the small windows before the walls, so you do not cover them by mistake.
• Draw tiny stone shapes on the towers with a darker pencil.
• Press harder on one side of each tower. It makes the towers look round.

A sharp colored pencil will help with the wall tops. Chunky crayons are too wide for those small squares, though they work well for the grass.

The castle that was never finished

Many fairy tale castles look like one famous building in Germany. Neuschwanstein Castle sits on a rocky hill in Bavaria, and King Ludwig II ordered it built in the 1800s. He loved old legends and wanted a home that looked like one. He died before it was done, and parts of it were never finished. You can see photos of it on Wikipedia.

Older castles were built for safety, not beauty. Walls could be many feet thick, and the square gaps along the top gave guards a place to hide while they watched the road. Tall towers helped them see far across the land.

Turn the castle into a game

Give each tower a job. One can be a library, one a bakery and one a room full of cats. Your child can draw a tiny sign beside each tower, then lead you on a tour of the whole place.

Build a castle with blocks or cardboard boxes after coloring. Use the page as a plan, and see if your builder can copy all five towers. Paper tubes make very good towers, and a triangle of paper makes a roof.

For math practice, count the windows, the flags and the wall tops. Older kids can look for shapes and write down how many triangles, rectangles and arches they can find.

Done? Hang it up. Then ask what would change if the castle stood on a cloud, deep in a snowy forest or out on an island in the middle of a very wide sea.

More pages for a royal day

Give the castle an owner with our princess coloring page, or head back to all our princess coloring pages. A brave kid might want the castle dragon coloring page next, where a dragon flies right over the walls.

On gray days, tape two or three copies side by side on a wall and call it a kingdom.

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