Lily stared at our bare maple last November and asked, dead serious, “Why did the tree take its clothes off?” I had nothing. But that question is the reason these seasons coloring pages exist, since little kids notice the year turning long before they can name a single month.
Most coloring pages for seasons stop at a snowman and a sun, and we wanted the in-between stuff too… blossoms, lemonade, crunchy leaves, a fox tucked under a snowy pine.
↓ Scroll to the free printable pagesBelow are over two thousand printable season coloring pages, and they don’t all play by the same rules. Some squeeze four seasons onto one sheet, while others hand a single season the whole page.
Toddlers get giant shapes. Bigger kids get forests stuffed with tiny flowers, so scroll the grid together and let your kid point first . . . they always choose faster than grown-ups do.
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I love how this little clothesline squeezes a whole year of weather into one spot, from a splashy raincoat and sunny swimsuit to a cozy sweater and mittens. I’d give those mittens mismatched stripes, because finding a matching pair in winter feels like a minor miracle!
I love how this little Earth swaps outfits with the seasons. Apparently even a planet needs a wardrobe refresh! I’d let the kids pick the colors, then ask which outfit they’d wear for a trip around the sun.
This little owl pointing out sunshine, clouds, rain, and snow looks ready to take charge of our morning weather chat. I’d let the kids pick today’s forecast first, though I suspect someone would choose snow just to make a case for hot chocolate!
I love how this little wheel takes us from a spring garden to a summer beach, then through a fall forest to a cozy winter cabin, all without packing a bag! I’d let the kids pick their favorite season first, though choosing between beach days and crunchy leaves might take longer than finding the crayons.
I love how this little sun, raindrop, leaf, and snowflake hold hands like they’ve decided every season deserves a turn at being the favorite. I’d set out plenty of yellows, blues, and greens, then happily make room for a pink snowflake, since there’s always one in our bunch!
I love how this little owl stays snug in its tree hollow while the world outside swaps spring blossoms for summer greens, autumn golds, and winter snow. I’d be tempted to give it a slightly sleepy face. All that watching, and not a single leaf to rake!
I’d give this little tent a cheerful orange glow and let the fireflies sparkle like tiny lanterns beneath that big round moon. There’s something lovely about a summer meadow at bedtime, though I’d definitely want a few extra blankets and a snack tucked inside!
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Seasons Coloring Pages Highlights
Owl in a Hollow Tree Watching the Seasons Change
One tree, four moods. Blossoms crowd the top left branches, a sun hangs on the right, loose leaves drift through the middle, and the lower right corner has gone speckly with snow. Right in the center, the owl peeks out of its hollow like it has sat through every one of them.
Kids can trace the year around the trunk with a finger before a single crayon comes out. Great for a science unit on the cycle of the year. The leaf shapes run small, so I’d save it for ages five and up.
Deer Family in a Half-Blooming, Half-Snowy Forest
Here’s the odd, lovely trick of this one. The left half is spring, flowering trees and blossoms at the deer’s hooves, while the right half has already slipped into winter under a snow-heavy pine.
A buck with antlers, a doe, a spotted fawn and a second little one lying down make up the family. Where exactly does spring end? Older kids argue about it, and honestly there’s no wrong answer.
Hot Air Balloon Over Four Season Fields
A striped balloon drifts over a patchwork of four fields, each one a different season, from flowers to full trees to falling leaves to a bare tree with its branches out. Clouds float along the top.
It’s tidy, almost diagram neat, which suits the kid who likes everything in its box. And it works on a classroom wall in April just as well as in January.
Park Bench Through the Seasons
Same bench, same spot, four panels. Blossoms first, then a leafy tree with the sun out, then leaves tumbling down, then a sprinkle of snow.
Hand this to the kid who just asked “how long until summer?” for the fourth time today. Four panels means four short sittings, which is not the worst deal for a wiggly afternoon.
Penguin, Bunny, Crab and Squirrel With Season Signs
Every animal here is casting a vote. The penguin holds up a snowflake, the bunny picked a flower, the crab chose a sun, and the squirrel waves a leaf with its big tail curled up behind it.
Ask the class to color the animal whose sign matches their own favorite season first. The crab looks very pleased with its pick.
Kawaii Seasonal Snack Party
A cupcake, an ice pop, a slice of pie and a mug of cocoa heaped with marshmallows, all with little faces, all standing shoulder to shoulder. A couple of leaves float by overhead.
Most seasonal coloring pages skip food entirely, which feels like a mistake to me. Each treat sort of belongs to one time of year, and kids work out which without being told.
Girl in Rain Boots Splashing in a Spring Puddle
Mid-splash. Arms flung wide, raincoat buttoned, boots planted right in the puddle, with tulips standing off to one side and a cloud overhead.
There’s no story to follow here, just joy. Perfect for four- and five-year-olds who’d rather be outside… which, in April, is all of them.
Preschool Page With Four Big Simple Shapes
A flower, a sun, a leaf and a snowflake, each one huge and wrapped in a thick outline. Nothing else on the page.
Give it to a three-year-old with a fat marker and step back. It doubles as a sorting game too, so ask which shape belongs to cold weather and watch a tiny face think very hard.
8 Tips for Coloring Seasons Coloring Pages
Sort the Fall Path Leaves by Tree
Several leaves on the fall woodland path are the star-shaped kind that maples drop. Color those red and orange, then give the plainer leaves a dull russet brown, like oak.
The science surprises kids: the yellow and orange were inside every leaf all summer, hidden under green chlorophyll that fades in autumn. Reds work differently, the tree makes them fresh in fall, so not every leaf gets one… and a path colored in nothing but red looks wrong for exactly that reason.
Give Each Deer the Coat for Its Half of the Forest
Many deer, white-tails included, swap coats twice a year, reddish tan in summer and a duller gray-brown for winter. On the half-blooming, half-snowy page, color each deer by the side it stands on and the split gets even sharper.
Leave the fawn’s spots paper white, since real fawns lose them before their first winter. For the buck, try soft, fuzzy brown pencil strokes on the antlers, the velvet that covers new antlers as they regrow in spring.
Decide Who Turns White Under the Snowy Pine
Snowshoe hares go white every winter, but red foxes stay orange all year and cottontails stay brown. So the rabbit under the pine is a real choice, brown cottontail or white hare, while the fox keeps its orange.
The owl can become a snowy owl, mostly white with a few dark flecks pressed in with a sharp gray pencil. Just keep at least one animal bold, or all three melt into the snowbank together.
Blend the Balloon Fields Where the Seasons Meet
In a relay race there’s a short exchange zone where both runners hold the baton for a moment. The four fields under the hot air balloon need that same handoff, a thin strip along each border where the next season’s color starts creeping in.
Colored pencil at light pressure works best, one color laid over the other so spring’s pink slides into summer green. Then pull one color from each field up into the balloon’s stripes, and the balloon looks like it has visited all four.
Tint Each Bench Panel With Its Own Light
Photographers measure light in kelvins, and the cool blue of an overcast winter day sits thousands of degrees away from the warm orange of a sunset. You can fake that on the park bench page by washing each panel, bench included, with its own pale tint.
Try lemon for the sunny panel, peach for falling leaves, a faint gray-blue for snow and a whisper of pink for blossoms. Keep the crayon pressure light, which I think is the secret on any season coloring sheets that repeat one scene four times, or the bench stops looking like the same bench.
Leave Last Year’s Cattails on the Spring Pond
Cattail heads turn brown by late summer, then slowly burst into white fluff over the winter, and plenty are still standing when ducklings show up in spring. So color the tall cattail heads on the duck pond a deep cocoa brown, with a few white tufts left bare near the tips.
The reed blades around them can go fresh yellow-green, the color of new growth. Old brown heads beside young green leaves is exactly how the pond behind my old school looked every April.
Split the Kawaii Circle Into Warm and Cool
Look at the circle of kawaii friends again: the sun and the leaf hold the left side, the raindrop and the snowflake hold the right. That’s a ready-made color lesson, with warm markers (yellow, orange, red) on the left and cool ones (blue, teal, lavender) on the right.
The fun part is the joined hands where the two sides meet. Go green where the sun grabs the raindrop and purple where the leaf grabs the snowflake, then ask your kid why those two colors work.
Paint One Tulip With Dutch Flames
During the Dutch tulip craze of the 1630s, the priciest bulbs grew streaky petals, red or purple flames on white. Nobody knew it then, but a virus spread by aphids caused those stripes.
Pick one tulip beside the splashing girl and give it thin red flames running up from the base with a fine-tip marker, white left between them. The rest can stay solid, perhaps plain yellow, so the striped one looks like the expensive one… which, back then, it would have been.