It is so weird how kids eventually gravitate toward the villains. My youngest son suddenly decided the spiky turtle king is his absolute hero.
We had the team draft up these Bowser coloring pages because the boys were just destroying their black crayons trying to draw him from memory. Finding free Bowser coloring pages that actually look good online is basically a chore I refuse to do anymore.
These designs are a bit chunkier to help tiny hands stay inside the lines… mostly. I swear my kids still color outside the borders just to spite me.
Anyway you can just click the images below to grab the PDFs. I think there are around 30 or 32 unique designs in this batch.
Your kids will also love:Â Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Rosalina, Princess Peach, Koopa Troopa.
Highlighted Bowser Coloring Pages
The Classic Mario Showdown
This one shows him facing off right against Mario on the castle bridge. He looks so angry and the bricks on the castle wall give kids a lot to color. I love how tiny Mario looks standing there ready to fight.
Finding a printable Bowser coloring pages file with this much action usually means blurry lines. But my team made sure the details here are crisp and clean for printing.
Showing Off The Muscles
Sometimes the guy just needs to flex his biceps. He is standing there with both arms up and you can see all those spiky armbands perfectly. My middle kid colored his scales neon pink which honestly kind of worked.
The rolling hills in the background give a nice soft contrast to his harsh spikes. It is a solid Bowser coloring sheet for kids who just want to focus on the character.
A Quiet Day Gardening
I think this is the absolute funniest thing our team has ever drawn. The big evil king is wearing a floppy sun hat and watering a patch of smiling sunflowers. He looks so grumpy holding that tiny watering can.
I tell my kids he needs a hobby besides kidnapping princesses all the time. Good Bowser coloring pages for kids should have a sense of humor about the characters.
Giant Monster Sized
He is looming massive over a tiny little castle and some mushrooms. You really get a sense of scale with how huge his claws look reaching down. It makes him look like a proper scary monster.
Kids love Godzilla movies so this hits that same exact button for them. Give them this free Bowser coloring pages design and watch them go nuts with the green crayons.
Summoning a Fireball
This is just classic villain stuff right here. He is holding a roaring fireball in one hand with the castle right behind him. The flames look really cool when you blend red and orange together.
You can use the fire to practice lighting effects on his face if your kid is older. It is definitely one of the more intense printable Bowser coloring pages we offer.
Mid-Air Jump Attack
Action poses are always tricky but he looks great jumping through the air here. His heavy shell is visible and you can see the bottom of his padded feet. The background has those classic rounded mountains.
And what follows from this? The fact that every crayon in the house will be broken by bedtime. It is a very energetic Bowser coloring sheet to keep them occupied.
Cozy Fireplace Knitting
Honestly my team deserves an award for this specific drawing. He is sitting in a comfy armchair by the fire with little reading glasses on just knitting a scarf. There are balls of yarn scattered on the rug.
The bookshelf behind him gives you a ton of tiny things to shade and color. It proves Bowser coloring pages for kids do not always have to be angry and loud.
The Big Evil Laugh
You can practically hear the booming laugh looking at this one. He has his head thrown back and his arms crossed tight. Even the sun in the sky looks a little intimidated by him.
It is a great page to practice coloring his massive red hair. My boys spent around 45 minutes straight just quietly working on this exact page yesterday.
Tips for Coloring Bowser Coloring Sheets
1. Nailing the Shell Colors
His shell is not just one flat color. The main dome is green but those little rings around the spikes are actually red. If you just grab a green crayon and go wild it looks wrong. I always try to tell my kids to slow down on the details.
Usually they ignore me and just scribble. But if you take a yellow pencil and outline the red rings first it helps. It creates a barrier so the green does not bleed in. It might cause some inconvenience but the result is way better.
2. Shading the Yellow Skin
He is basically a giant yellow dinosaur which is a lot of space to fill. If you color him completely flat yellow he looks like a giant lemon. We use an orange colored pencil to add shadows under his chin and arms.
This decision is… let’s say counter-intuitive for a five year old. They think yellow is yellow. But blending that orange in makes him look round and heavy. Just lightly feather it in near the edges of his belly.
3. Making the Fire Pop
The fireballs need to look hot and bright against the paper. The trick is to leave the very center of the flame completely white. Don’t color it at all.
Then you wrap yellow around the white… then orange around the yellow… and red on the very outside. It is a simple gradient. All this art theory comes down to one thing: light needs dark to look bright. Try it next time they draw fire.
4. The Spiky Metal Bands
He wears these heavy black collars and wristbands with metal spikes. Black crayon is basically the enemy of a clean coloring page because it smears everywhere. It gets on your hands and then suddenly the whole page is ruined.
I buy the cheap grey colored pencils specifically for this. Have them use dark grey instead of black for the leather parts. Then leave the metal spikes almost white with just a tiny smudge of grey for a shadow. It looks like real metal.
5. Dealing with His Hair
His hair is a bright fiery red orange. Getting that exact shade with a single crayon is basically impossible. You have to layer it.
Put down a layer of red first but don’t press too hard. Then scrub over it with a bright yellow crayon. The wax mixes together and creates this perfect harsh orange color. Will this work tomorrow? No idea. But today it works.
6. Picking the Right Green
The green on his shell is a deep forest green. It is not that bright grass green color Mario’s pipes are. I see kids use neon green all the time and it just looks silly.
You want a cool toned dark green. If you only have bright green you can lightly color a layer of blue underneath it. The blue darkens the green and makes it look heavier. It grounds the abstraction in the physical reality of the character.
7. Managing the Backgrounds
Most of these pages have castles or skies behind him. He is such a bright yellow character that you want the background to contrast. Use cool colors like purple or dark blue for the sky.
If you use warm colors like orange or red in the background he will blend right into it. He needs to pop off the page. Sometimes skipping explanations and just hiding the warm crayons is the best strategy. Just let them figure it out.
8. Choosing Markers or Crayons
I honestly think colored pencils are the best tool for these specific pages. There are a lot of tiny teeth and spikes that crayons just obliterate. Crayons are too blunt for the fine details on his face.
Markers are great for his bright shell but they bleed through standard printer paper. If you use markers you absolutely must put a junk piece of paper underneath. Ask me how many times I have scrubbed marker off my dining table. Around 97-98 times.