My third year of teaching, I had a second grader who whispered every answer and kept a plastic hamster in her pencil box for emergencies. She once spent an entire indoor recess building that hamster a house out of pink erasers and a tissue box.
I thought about her the whole time we were drawing these Fluttershy coloring pages, the bunny portrait especially. Shy, gentle, careful with tiny creatures… and then, out of nowhere, braver than anyone in the room expected.
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Featured Fluttershy Coloring Pages
I can almost feel that bunny’s fluffy little ears as Fluttershy snuggles it among the wildflowers. I’d leave its fur snowy white and go a little wild with the flower colors. Nobody said a meadow couldn’t have rainbow daisies!
I love how Fluttershy’s fluttering wings make her look so busy hanging that little bird feeder from the branch. Breakfast service is nearly ready! I’d leave a few seeds scattered below for the birds who prefer their meals picnic-style.
Fluttershy looks so patient guiding those little ducklings across the path, though I suspect the last one is already thinking about puddles. I’d keep a yellow crayon handy for this sweet little parade and let the kids dream up some rainbow pebbles along the way.
I love how Fluttershy is brushing up on animal care while those bunnies pile up beside her, clearly hoping there’s a chapter on extra snacks. I’d keep her book a soft green and let the little ones pick a different shade for each fluffy reading buddy.
I love how Fluttershy has popped on her rain jacket to help this tiny snail across the path, since some little neighbors need an extra patient friend! I’d give her jacket a cheerful splash of yellow and let the snail show off a rainbow shell.
I think the tiny butterfly perched on Fluttershy’s nose is stealing the show, though that heart-shaped bubble is a close second. I’d leave a little white spot on the bubble to make it look shiny, then let the kids dream up their own butterfly colors.
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Fluttershy Coloring Pages Highlights
Hiding Inside a Flower
A giant tulip fills nearly the whole page, and Fluttershy is tucked inside it with just her eyes and the top of her mane peeking over the petals. She’s checking the room like an actor peering through the curtain gap before opening night. Butterflies sit on one of the petals, too.
Lily, my three-year-old, colored this one with a fat pink marker in roughly four loops and declared it finished. Big shapes, thick lines, almost nothing small. For toddlers working on grip, it’s hard to beat.
Standing Up to a Growling Manticore
Plenty of My Little Pony coloring pages Fluttershy turns up on show her smiling at a bunny. Not this one. Crouched with a curled scorpion tail and bared teeth, a manticore growls at her, and she answers with a flat, stern stare.
Fans know the backstory from the very first episode, when she calmed a manticore in the Everfree by pulling a thorn from its paw. Older kids who like a little tension tend to start here, and the mountains and trees behind them give those kids plenty more to fill.
Rowboat With Ducklings
Three ducklings paddle across the pond in a tidy line while Fluttershy sits in a rowboat beside them, oar in hoof. Trees lean over the bank in the background.
I think this is the calmest scene in the set. It suits a spring unit on baby animals, or a brain break after a loud lunch. Medium-size shapes, so five and up will manage fine.
Painting a Tiny Bunny Portrait
Brush clamped in her mouth, Fluttershy is finishing a portrait of a sitting bunny on a small easel. Her expression is pure focus.
Art-class kids love the picture-within-a-picture idea. It’s a sneaky way into a talk about portraits, too, especially with seven-year-olds who think portraits only live in museums.
Lowering a Tiny Mouse Out of a Tree
Somebody got stuck up a tree, and it’s the smallest passenger in the whole collection. Fluttershy lowers a mouse in a little basket on a rope looped over a branch, wings half open, eyes on that basket the entire way down.
Kindness week, anyone? It opens a nice chat about being gentle with small things, and the basket and bark give older kids some detail to work through.
Playing a Flute on a Stump
Perched on a tree stump, Fluttershy holds a flute sideways at her lips. Three little birds make up her audience, one up on a branch and two on the grass, all turned toward the music.
Music teachers, this one’s yours. It’s detailed without being fussy, a nice middle ground for ages five to seven. And the flowers around the stump aren’t the hardest thing anyone will color this week.
Sneezing as Petals Burst
Caught mid-sneeze. Eyes squeezed shut, she’s still clutching the bouquet while petals shoot off in every direction.
Gentle slapstick for every kid who thinks sneezes are hilarious, which is all of them, as far as I can tell. Lots of small petals, though, so maybe six and up.
Napping Under a Willow Tree
Willow branches spill down over Fluttershy, who’s fast asleep in the grass with a squirrel dozing on her back. Neither of them looks in a hurry to move before dinner.
Rest time in a kindergarten classroom, perhaps, or a bedtime wind-down. The long willow strands repeat over and over, which some kids find soothing and others find endless.
8 Tips for Coloring Fluttershy
Burnish Her Pale Pink Mane
Fluttershy’s mane is a softer pink than Pinkie Pie’s, and most pink crayons come out far too loud for it. Color it in pink pencil first, then rub a white pencil hard over the top.
White melts the pink into a creamy pastel, a bit like strawberry jam folded into whipped cream. Start on the mane-hiding page, the one most people picture when they search for Fluttershy cute coloring sheets.
Uneven Wings on Her Butterfly Cutie Mark
Her cutie mark is three pink butterflies with teal bodies, and the same butterflies flutter across the tulip petal. Real butterflies rarely have matching top and bottom wings.
Press harder on the upper wings and keep the lower pair pale. Each teal body needs one sharp pencil stroke down the middle, nothing more.
Color the Manticore Like the Old Legend
The manticore legend goes back to Ctesias, a Greek doctor at the Persian court, who described a beast as red as cinnabar with a lion’s body and a stinging tail. He never saw one, of course.
Skip the tan lion, then, and go brick red with a rust mane. Next to a red monster, her pale yellow looks about twice as brave.
Decide Whose Ducklings These Are
Bright yellow ducklings are usually farm Pekins. Wild mallard babies are dark brown with yellow patches and a thin stripe through each eye.
A brown mallard trio also keeps Fluttershy the only yellow thing in the boat. Their single-file line is accurate, by the way, because ducklings imprint on the first moving thing they see and follow it everywhere.
Paint Angel’s Portrait in Marker
On the easel page, fill the canvas background behind the bunny in marker and keep Fluttershy in pencil. Flat marker color reads like wet paint, so the portrait turns into a picture inside a picture.
Every fan at the table will swear that bunny is Angel, her bossy white rabbit, so leave him paper white with a pink nose. Finish by dabbing the background color onto the tip of the brush in her mouth.
Pick a Material for Her Flute
Nothing on the stump page says what her flute is made of. Silver means cool gray pencil, while wood means honey brown with each finger hole ringed a shade darker.
Bone is a third option, though an awkward one for this audience. Archaeologists dug the oldest known flute out of a German cave, carved from a vulture’s wing bone somewhere around 35,000 to 40,000 years ago.
Match Every Sneezed Petal to Its Flower
Before touching the flying petals, color the bouquet with one color per bloom. After that, match every loose petal to a flower, so you can tell which bloom took the worst hit.
Truthfully, the bouquet is probably innocent. Showy flowers carry heavy, sticky pollen meant for bees, and hay fever mostly comes from wind-blown grass and tree pollen.
Make the Everfree Look Wild
In the show, ponies fear the Everfree Forest because nobody controls it, and its weather, plants and animals all run themselves. So the tree on the worried-eyes page shouldn’t look like the friendly meadow trees elsewhere in the set.
Murky gray-green bark works, with a little purple pressed into the shadows along the trunk. Fluttershy actually lives right at the forest’s edge, which is either very brave or very her… no idea which.