Before: indoor recess, a stack of pony printouts, and four second graders arguing over who got stuck with “the orange one,” the plain one, the farm one. After, maybe twenty minutes later, nobody would hand Applejack back.
I didn’t plan that turnaround, but I’ve watched it repeat with coloring pages of Applejack ever since. Kids, I think, like a pony who gets her hooves dirty, sweats a little, loses her temper at a fence.
↓ Scroll to the free printable pagesForty Applejack coloring pages wait in the grid below, starting at a rodeo ring and ending in a hammock between two apple trees. In between she hauls, hammers, herds sheep and gets caught in the rain.
Each of them opens as a PDF you can print at home or at school. Pick whichever chore matches your kid’s mood… the grumpy fence one exists for a reason.
Featured Applejack Coloring Pages
I love how Applejack’s lanterns turn the barn into such a cheerful spot for the Apple family to gather. I’d mix sunny yellows with a few bright reds, though I suspect the promise of apple pie is what really gets everyone through the door!
I love Applejack’s gentle smile as she guides that tiny chick home. It’s just the sort of little kindness I like to point out to children. I’d pick a sunny yellow for her fluffy friend, though a pink chick would certainly give the hens something to cluck about!
Applejack looks like she’s earned a little downtime on that hay bale, with a bit of straw in her mouth and the sun slipping away behind her. I’d pull out the peach and golden-yellow crayons for this one, though a pink-and-purple sunset would be awfully pretty, too!
Applejack’s startled face and flying hat make this muddy mishap such a giggle. I can almost hear the splat! I’d keep her lovely orange coat bright and let the kids go wild with the muddy browns, especially since this is one mess we won’t have to mop up.
Applejack’s party hat and birthday pie make this little farm celebration feel extra sweet. I’d take a slice of pie over cake any day! I’d leave her coat a sunny orange and let the kids dream up the wildest party-hat colors they can.
I can’t help smiling at Applejack’s oversized head and that tiny apple basket wobbling along beside her. She’s clearly determined to get every last apple home! I’d pick warm oranges for her coat and let the kids decide whether those apples are rosy red, bright green, or a wonderfully unlikely purple.
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Applejack Coloring Pages Highlights
Cowgirl in the Rodeo Ring
Front hoof raised, lasso looping over her hat, Applejack owns this rodeo ring. A barrel waits by the fence, and a bandana sits knotted at her neck, which is about as cowgirl as a pony gets.
Older kids get the most out of that rope, since it curls all over the page. Rodeo birthday party? Print a stack.
Fixing a Wagon Wheel
Wrench in hoof, brow pulled low, she’s working a spoked wheel back onto a wooden wagon. That scowl of concentration might be the best face in the whole set.
Spokes are fiddly, so I’d save this for seven and eight year olds rather than preschoolers. It also slots nicely into a simple machines unit, if wheels and axles are on your lesson plan this month.
Fixing the Barn Roof
Nails clamped in her mouth (please, kids, don’t try that at home), hammer raised, Applejack is patching shingles on top of the barn. Behind her, the gable end and a loft window fill the corner of the page.
Row after row of shingles makes this a slow color. Toolbox kids will go straight for it, and so will anyone who has ever “helped” fix something with a plastic hammer.
Looking Stubborn by a Broken Fence
Hooves crossed. Mouth set flat. Next to her a post has snapped and a loose board lies in the grass, and she is clearly not discussing it.
Anyone who has raised a four year old knows this pose by heart. Save it for a cranky afternoon and let the grump color the grump.
Riding on a Hay Wagon
Perched on a heaped pile of hay, she rides a wooden wagon with two big spoked wheels while the hills roll away behind her. Pleased with herself? Very.
Those outlines are thick enough to survive Sam, who colors like a timer is going off and treats every wheel as a dare. Fall festivals, hayride weekends, the first cool week of September… it covers all of them.
Selling Apple Cider at a Market Stall
Striped awning, a pitcher on the counter, a basket of apples, one loose apple and a big apple painted across the front panel. Applejack leans in behind all of it wearing the proudest smile in the collection.
Farmers market season, a school fair, a classroom store with play money… this one fits every one of those. Kids who love playing shop will want to run the stall themselves the minute they finish.
Sipping Lemonade on the Porch
Finally, she sits down. Rocking chair, tall glass, a straw and a lemon slice on the rim, with the farmhouse porch opening onto fields beyond the railing.
Quiet pages earn their spot too. Hot July afternoon, last week of school, whenever the house needs to drop a notch or two.
Sleeping in a Hammock Between Apple Trees
Strung between two apple trees, the hammock sags under a pony who has tugged her hat over her eyes and clocked out. Apples hang overhead, and a few have already dropped into the grass.
Grab one free Applejack coloring page for a bedtime wind-down and make it this one. Calm lines, sleepy mood, nothing to argue about.
Tips for Coloring Applejack
One Red for Her Apples and Hair Ties
Her cutie mark is three red apples, and the ties holding her ponytail and tail are red too. Choose one red, a single crayon or marker, and use it for both on every page, then let it land on the apple painted across the market stall as well.
Picture the postmark at the post office, the same inked circle thumped onto every parcel so you know where it came from. Flip through all fifteen pages and she pops out faster when that red never drifts. Cherry or crimson, doesn’t matter. Just one.
Keep the Hat Darker Than Her Coat
Here’s the trap. An orange coat next to a light brown hat turns into one muddy blob from across the room, so go deeper on the hat than feels right. Chocolate, no, darker, more like coffee grounds.
The storm page tests this hardest, with the hat tumbling through the air away from her head, and the hammock page needs it too since the brim covers her eyes. Fans have argued for years that the hat once belonged to her father, Bright Mac, who wears a similar one in “The Perfect Pear.” Maybe. Nobody on the show ever quite says it, and I’ve stopped waiting.
Freckles in Rust, Never Black
Three little freckles sit on each of her cheeks, printed on nearly every page here. Black marker makes them look like toast crumbs.
Rust or burnt sienna pencil, sharpened and dotted lightly over the finished orange, keeps them soft. Little ones under four can skip them altogether… with that hat on, she’s still unmistakably Applejack.
Green Eyes, Not the Default Blue
Ask a table of kids what color pony eyes are and most will reach for blue. Hers are green, a clear apple-leaf green, and true fans notice the swap instantly.
Start on the honest smile page or the stubborn fence glare, where her face is biggest. Colored pencil beats marker in an iris this small, because marker floods and swallows the pupil. One detail on an Applejack from My Little Pony coloring page, sure, but it’s the one a fan checks first.
Barn Red With the Trim Left White
Sweet Apple Acres has a red barn with crisp white trim in the show, and that trim is what makes it the Apple family barn instead of any old barn. For the roof-fixing page, color the boards red and leave the frame around the loft window, plus every trim line, paper white.
Contrast stitching on a pair of jeans works the same way, a pale seam that gives the whole garment its shape. Marker helps here, since it stops cleanly at an edge where crayon tends to skid. Same goes for the little barn behind the rain page, just smaller.
Not Every Apple on the Farm Has to Be Red
Granny Smith, who helped settle Sweet Apple Acres as a filly in one of her famous long flashbacks, shares her name with a real green apple. Real-world credit goes to Maria Ann Smith and a chance seedling near Sydney around 1868, though orchard history tends to get polished in the retelling.
So on the hammock page, mix varieties. Hang a few green apples, a couple of yellow ones, and save the reds for her cutie mark. Only the basket beside her honest smile stays red, since the file name calls them shiny red apples.
Cider Is Amber, Not Apple Red
Cider looks nothing like the fruit it’s pressed from. Fill the pitcher on the market stall page with honey or amber orange, a little deeper toward the bottom where it pools thickest.
Apple family cider is serious business in Equestria. Whole lines of ponies queue for it in “The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000,” while the Flim Flam brothers try to out-squeeze the Apples with a giant machine. (Spoiler: once they skip quality control, the machine cider tastes awful.) Not a great look for a pitch.
A Paisley Bandana and a Rematch Ribbon
Real cowboy bandanas usually carry paisley, those curled teardrops that drifted west from old Persian textiles. On the rodeo page it’s drawn plain, which leaves room to pencil in a few tiny teardrops before coloring.
Go navy or forest green so it stays out of the way of her apple red. And a bit of lore… in “The Last Roundup” she rode off to the Equestria Rodeo promising prize money for Ponyville’s town hall and came home with ribbons that weren’t first place. Doodle a blue ribbon on the fence post and give her the rematch.