Now serving, all day and all winter: one mug of cocoa, extra marshmallows, no burnt tongues and no sticky ring on the coffee table. That’s the entire menu for these hot chocolate coloring pages, and the kitchen never closes.
We drew plenty of them, some starring one cheerful mug and others a dragon, a sneaky raccoon or a penguin in a beret working the counter. The refill policy isn’t exactly stingy. Print one, print six, and nobody ever has to wash a single cup.
↓ Scroll to the free printable pagesScroll down for the whole lineup, every one of these free hot chocolate coloring pages saved as its own PDF with dark, crisp lines that print well on plain copy paper. Big simple mugs share the grid with busier animal scenes.
Which one gets printed first? My money’s on the raccoon.
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Those mugs lined up on the counter look like they’re patiently waiting for a turn at the cocoa pot, and I’d give each one a different cheerful pattern. A cozy kitchen like this practically begs for warm colors, and now I’m wondering whether we have any marshmallows left in the cupboard.
I’d happily pull up a chair to this hot chocolate table, especially with all those marshmallows and sprinkles waiting to be piled into the cups. Let the kids dream up colorful mugs and stripey spoons. I suspect the marshmallow supply would mysteriously shrink if we set this up at home!
I think these two penguins have the right idea. If you’re going to stand around in the snow, you might as well serve hot chocolate! I’d give their little stand the cheeriest colors in the box, then let the kids decide whether penguins charge extra for marshmallows.
I like to think this little dragon takes its cocoa-warming duties very seriously: not too hot, just right for tiny sips. I’d give the mug a cheerful rainbow pattern and leave a few marshmallows bobbing on top, because even dragons deserve the good stuff.
I think this little otter has the right idea: float on your back, hold your cocoa close, and let the busy world wait a minute. I’d give that tiny mug a cheerful red finish, though a few rainbow polka dots would be awfully sweet too.
This little sloth has the right idea, tucked into an indoor hammock with a hot chocolate and absolutely nowhere to rush off to. I’d give its mug a cheerful splash of red, though I’m mostly wondering how I can arrange a similarly peaceful afternoon!
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Hot Chocolate Coloring Pages Highlights
Tiny Skier on a Whipped Cream Mountain
A whipped cream summit, piled so high it spills over the rim in thick wavy drips. Up top, a tiny skier in a pom-pom hat and goggles crouches over the skis with both poles out and a scarf flapping behind, well, streaming really, like he’s going fast. Marshmallows peek out around the base, and a big heart sits on the front of the mug.
Kids who love hunting for small things will spend a while on that skier. But the heart and the drips are wide open for younger hands, so it suits a mixed-age table in December.
Mug in a Cozy Knitted Sweater Sleeve
This mug wears a sweater. Five cable-knit braids run up the sleeve between ribbed bands at the top and bottom, and three fat marshmallows bob on the cocoa under three wavy curls of steam.
Leo claimed this one and worked through every twist of every braid like he was defusing something. Best for patient older kids, or for a grown-up with a cup of the real stuff nearby.
Kawaii Marshmallow Jumping off a Spoon
Arms up, legs kicking, a grinning marshmallow launches off a spoon toward a mug of cocoa that’s already splashing. Droplets fly in every direction. And the mug has a big heart on the front, as if it saw the whole thing coming.
If someone at home asks for a cute hot chocolate coloring page, start here. Shapes are chunky and round, and those splash drops make good tiny targets for a marker tip.
Little Dragon Warming a Mug of Cocoa
Not a flame in sight. A baby dragon with stubby horns, a ridged belly and one folded wing puffs a soft cloud of breath at a small mug of marshmallow cocoa, both paws raised beside it.
Dragon fans who usually want battles and treasure piles get something gentler for once. Perhaps the sweetest page in the set, and the spiky back and tail give older kids plenty to chew on.
Mouse Dipping a Cookie
Perched on the rim of a mug, a small mouse with big round ears dunks a chocolate chip cookie straight into the cocoa. The cookie’s bottom edge looks ragged and crumbly where it meets the drink. His curly tail hangs out behind him.
Good pick for a snack-time theme in class or a cookie swap afternoon. Who dunks for one second, who dunks for ten? Every kid has an opinion, and none of them agree.
Penguin Barista Behind the Counter
Behind a paneled counter stands a penguin in a beret and an apron tied with a bow at the back, pouring a long ribbon of cocoa from a pitcher into a marshmallow-topped mug. Webbed feet poke out underneath. No idea why he wears a beret, but it suits him.
I think kids who play café at home will want this one on the fridge. Coloring the flat counter front takes no time, while the pour and the pitcher need a steadier hand.
Raccoon Sneaking a Marshmallow
Caught in the act. A masked raccoon leans over a mug heaped with marshmallows and lifts one right out, wearing a little grin that says he knows exactly what he’s doing.
Between the ringed tail and the mask, early learners get a pattern to practice. Hand it to whoever “just borrowed” a cookie before dinner.
Simple Preschool Mug With Steam Swirls
One big mug with a smiley face, round eyes and two blush spots on its cheeks. Three marshmallows sit on top, and three tall swirls of steam curl up and over like question marks.
Here’s the easy hot chocolate coloring page for preschoolers still figuring out how to hold a crayon properly. Wide spaces, thick lines, nothing tiny to wrestle with.
8 Tips for Coloring Hot Chocolate
Pick Cocoa or Chocolate Before You Pick a Brown
Hot cocoa and hot chocolate aren’t quite the same drink, even if most of us swap the names. Cocoa is made from powder and comes out a lighter, milky tan, while true hot chocolate is melted bar chocolate and runs darker and thicker.
So decide which one each mug holds, a light caramel pencil for cocoa and a deep brown crayon pressed hard for the rich stuff. Across all fifteen hot chocolate coloring sheets, a mix of both browns looks like a real café order instead of one drink copied over and over.
Let the Skier’s Whipped Cream Melt at the Edges
On the skier page, the cream mountain drips over the rim in wavy curtains, and real whipped cream does exactly that once it starts soaking up warm cocoa. Leave the summit around the skier paper white, but give those drips a pale milky tan.
Legend credits the Château de Chantilly in France with inventing whipped cream, yet Italian cookbooks were printing recipes for it about a century before that famous kitchen. White on top and tan below tells the eye the cream is sliding, no melting lines needed.
Shade the Marshmallow Tower Like Stacked Boxes
Picture the tall marshmallow tower as a stack of cubes, and every cube has a top, a front and a side. Keep the tops white, give the fronts a whisper of cream, and put light gray pencil on the side faces only.
The first marshmallows really did come from a plant, the marsh mallow, whose sticky root sap ancient Egyptians mixed with honey into a sweet. Modern ones are mostly sugar and gelatin, so keep the shading faint or they’ll look stale.
Treat the Cable Knit Like a Braid
Each of the five cables on the sweater-sleeve mug is a twist where one strand crosses over another. Like a French braid at the salon, every strand tucks under its neighbor, and that tuck is where you press a little harder with the pencil.
You’ll hear that Irish Aran families each had a stitch of their own so drowned fishermen could be identified, but knitting historians trace that tale to a stage play and a 20th-century sweater seller, not old island records. True or not, pick one yarn color for the cables and a darker shade for the ribbed bands, and the sleeve looks hand-knit.
Color the Dragon’s Breath as Warm Air
Forget fire, this dragon only puffs a soft cloud at his cocoa. Think of your own breath on a frosty morning, thickest right at your lips and gone a few inches out, and color it that way.
Pale peach or apricot pencil near his mouth, fading to bare paper before the cloud reaches the mug, reads as gentle heat. Chinese dragons, by the way, are linked to water and rain rather than flames, so a jade-green body with a gold belly suits this calm fellow nicely.
Dunk the Mouse’s Cookie
Look where the mouse’s cookie meets the cocoa, that ragged bottom edge is the soggy part. Color the dry top half golden tan, then go a shade darker from about the middle down so it looks dunked a few seconds too long.
Ruth Wakefield created the chocolate chip cookie at the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts in the late 1930s, and the popular tale about her running out of baker’s chocolate doesn’t match her own account. Work around the chip circles, then dot them last with your darkest brown marker, because marker skips and beads on crayon wax.
Give the Raccoon Washer Hands
Procyon lotor, the raccoon’s scientific name, roughly means “washer,” because they dabble food in water and seem to scrub it. Scientists now think wet paws simply sharpen their sense of touch, and those small dark hands are what make a raccoon look so human.
Charcoal gray works for his paws, the same shade as his mask, and the stolen marshmallow pops bright white between them. Real raccoons wear somewhere around four to ten dark tail rings, so give his rings a quick count before you fill them.
Build Foam Under the Penguin’s Pour
Long before marshmallows, the Maya and Aztecs poured their chocolate drink from one vessel into another, held high, just to raise a thick foam. Foam was the prized part, not a mess to skim off.
That penguin barista is pulling the same move with his pitcher, so color the stream the same brown as the cocoa in his mug and circle a few tiny tan bubbles where it lands. It’s the one coloring page hot chocolate history sneaks into, if you know where to look.