I’ll make a prediction. Within ten minutes of printing these Rainbow Dash coloring pages, somebody at your table will hold up a half-done tail and demand to know whether green goes above yellow or below it.
Below. And that tiny argument is the reason I wanted a set where the fastest pegasus in Equestria also naps, smacks into clouds and gets chased by geese, because a pony who only ever wins gets dull by page three.
↓ Scroll to the free printable pagesAll forty pages sit in the grid below, each one a single-sheet PDF. Some are kawaii and chunky, built for little fists, and a few are packed with confetti, geese and Ponyville rooftops for kids who like to settle in.
Every one of these printable Rainbow Dash coloring pages prints fine on regular copy paper. Cardstock is better if markers are involved, though, and I learned that from a very soggy kitchen table.
Featured Rainbow Dash Coloring Pages
I love how Rainbow Dash squeezes that tiny rainbow like a favorite cuddly toy, with sparkly eyes and rosy cheeks making her extra sweet. I’d put every bright crayon on the table for this one, though a pink-and-purple rainbow would be just as lovely!
I love the little gasp on Rainbow Dash’s face as she catches that glowing star. It’s the same wide-eyed wonder I see when something feels just a bit magical. I’d leave a soft white center in the star and add yellow around it, though a pink glow would be lovely too!
I love how Rainbow Dash’s streaming mane makes her look like she’s caught the perfect breeze just above the Everfree treetops. I’d give those leafy greens a little extra love so her rainbow colors can really zoom into view!
I love seeing Rainbow Dash trade her speedy adventures for a little stargazing, stretched out on her back on a quiet cloud. I’d reach for deep blues and purples for the night sky, then let her rainbow mane sneak in a splash of bedtime mischief.
That competitive little smirk tells me Rainbow Dash has no intention of letting a speeding balloon win this race! I’d give the balloon the brightest colors in the box, because if it can’t beat her, it can at least steal a little attention.
I love how proudly Rainbow Dash stands on that rainbow bridge, with the setting sun giving her a golden goodbye. I’d leave a few white gaps in the sunset for extra sparkle, but around here, someone would probably insist on making the sun purple!
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Rainbow Dash Coloring Pages Highlights
Sonic Rainboom Across the Sky
This is the move fans wait for. Rainbow Dash bursts up out of a curving rainbow trail, one hoof thrust forward, wearing the grin of a pony who knows precisely how good she is.
In the show, her first Sonic Rainboom happened when she was a filly racing in Cloudsdale, and the shockwave helped five future friends earn their cutie marks at the same moment she earned hers. The trail is wide and the clouds are simple, so a five- or six-year-old gets a big, bold job without a pile of fiddly bits.
Kicking a Rain Cloud Above Ponyville
Mid-air, Rainbow Dash plants a back hoof straight into a rain cloud, and rain slants down over the little houses of Ponyville. Up in the corner, the sun and a rainbow are already waiting for her to finish.
Weather duty is her actual job in Ponyville, and in the very first episode she brags she can clear the sky in ten seconds flat. I’d pair it with a classroom weather unit, perhaps next to a chart of real cloud types.
Kawaii Rainbow Dash Sleeping on a Cloud Pillow
Eyes shut, cheek squished into a puffy cloud, tail spilling over the side. Chunky stars float all around her, each one big enough to hit on the first try.
Lily attacked the stars with a purple marker, skipped the pony completely and announced she was done. Counts as a win in my book. Bedtime routines, quiet corners, that last page before lights out… this one fits all of them.
Dodging a Flock of Angry Geese
Not every flight goes well. Down near the hills she skims low, eyes huge with fright, while a flock of angry geese flaps along right above her.
Anyone who has walked past a park pond in spring knows geese hiss, and nobody wins that standoff, wings or no wings. It’s the rare coloring page of Rainbow Dash where she’s clearly losing, and kids around seven and up enjoy giving each bird its own personality.
Pumpkin Costume on Nightmare Night
Rainbow Dash stands in a round pumpkin costume with a jack-o’-lantern face carved on the front, a stem and leaf perched on her head and her tail sticking out the back. Clouds drift behind her, which makes sense for a Nightmare Night up in Cloudsdale.
October class parties eat this one up. The costume is one big round shape, so younger kids can fill it in a few fat strokes while older ones fuss over the carved grin.
Golden Trophy at a Weather Festival
Confetti everywhere. Swags of ribbon and a big bow hang across the top while Rainbow Dash, up on her back legs, hoists a trophy with an emblem that looks a lot like her own cutie mark.
Back in season one she won Cloudsdale’s Best Young Flyer competition, so she’s had practice with this pose. Hand it out for end-of-year awards, sports day, or the kid who finally put their face in the pool at swim lessons.
Party Hat and Birthday Cake
Party hat on, she loops around a frosted birthday cake with five candles on top and a balloon floating on each side. Grinning, naturally.
Five candles is convenient if your birthday kid is turning five and mildly inconvenient otherwise. More can be drawn in. Big cake, simple shapes, plenty of white space for a party table full of mixed ages.
Crashing Into a Cloud
Face-first. That’s how this landing went, with her chin smacked into a puffy cloud, tail flung up in the air, and a ring of little stars spinning around her head.
Seeing stars after a bump is real, by the way. Pressure on the eye makes the retina fire, and the brain reads it as flashes of light (the fancy word is phosphenes). Slapstick fans will ask for this one twice.
8 Tips for Coloring Rainbow Dash
Run One Mane Color Through Every Lock
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet. That’s the mane and tail, and every lock repeats the order. Real rainbows ended up with seven names largely because Isaac Newton wanted the spectrum to match the seven notes of a musical scale, so he squeezed in orange and indigo… Rainbow Dash quietly skips indigo.
So don’t work lock by lock. Grab the red, hunt down every red stripe on the page, and finish all of them before you touch orange. Where the tail curls into long ribbons, like on the sleeping and lounging pages, this one habit keeps green from sneaking in above yellow.
Keep the Sky Behind Her Out of the Blue Box
Her coat is a pale sky cyan, which is lovely until a kid colors the actual sky the same shade and she vanishes. The superhero, lounging and peeking-behind-a-cloud pages are the worst for this, since she’s surrounded by open air.
Two fixes. Leave the background white, or go warm with a peach or lemon sunrise so her blue jumps forward. And if someone at the table insists on a blue sky, push it way darker, almost evening navy, so the contrast flips in her favor.
Split Her Cutie Mark Bolt Into Three Stripes
Look closely at her flank: a white cloud with a zigzag lightning bolt striped red, yellow and blue. It’s about as big as a fingernail on most pages, so a marker will flood it. Sharpen a colored pencil, sketch two faint guide lines along the bolt, then fill the three bands one at a time and leave the cloud paper white.
The juggling page makes a nice contrast. Those three bolts she’s tossing around get plain lemon yellow with no stripes, which keeps the striped one on her flank looking like hers and nobody else’s.
Make the Rainboom Trail Louder Than the Pony
The trail does the shouting on the Sonic Rainboom page. Color it in marker, solid and saturated, then keep Rainbow Dash herself in colored pencil so she stays crisp in front of all that noise. Body shops do two-tone paint jobs by taping off one color before spraying the next, and a strip of scrap paper laid along each band edge does the same job here.
About that boom. Famous photos of fighter jets wrapped in a white cone get captioned “breaking the sound barrier” constantly, but the cone is mostly condensation from a pressure drop and can show up a bit below the speed of sound. I think a rainbow version is every bit as believable.
Pick a Pumpkin Orange That Isn’t in Her Mane
Check her mane before reaching for the orange crayon. There’s already an orange stripe in it, and on the Nightmare Night page it sits right up against the costume. Same crayon for both and the mane melts into the pumpkin, so go burnt orange on the costume and a bright tangerine on the mane, or skip orange altogether.
Gardeners know pumpkins don’t have to be orange anyway. Some heirlooms grow ghost white, and an Australian variety called Jarrahdale comes out a dusty blue-gray. A cream pumpkin with a brown stem makes her mane pop more than orange ever could. Fun bit of trivia for the table: in the show’s real Nightmare Night episode, “Luna Eclipsed,” Rainbow Dash dressed as a Shadowbolt, so the pumpkin is our own invention.
Color the Rain Cloud Page in Two Moods
The kick page is really two weathers on one sheet. Under the rain cloud, the rain and the Ponyville rooftops it’s falling on stick to cool grays and dull blues. Up by the sun and rainbow, everything goes warm.
Dash sits right between the two, which makes her the border. Right where her hoof connects, the cloud has a little burst of impact lines… leave that spot paper white or barely touched with pale yellow, so the kick looks like it actually landed. Gloomy on one side, cleared up on the other, and nobody has to explain the story.
Save the Whites in Her Frightened Eyes
Deep rose, closer to raspberry than pink. That’s her eye color, and on the geese page her eyes are blown wide with tiny pupils and a lot of white around them, so color only the thin ring of iris and leave everything else blank. Fill the whole eye and the fright just disappears.
The cocky wink page is the opposite problem. One eye is just a curved line, which means the open one carries the whole smirk, so press harder there. A touch of purple along the top of the iris works on the rainboom page too, where her brows drop into that confident grin and the extra shade reads as pure determination.
Dress the Superhero Cape in Wonderbolts Colors
Seasons of the show went by with Rainbow Dash dreaming about the Wonderbolts, Equestria’s star flying team, and she finally joined them in season six. Their uniforms are blue with a yellow lightning bolt, which hands you a ready-made color scheme for the superhero page.
Pick a deep royal blue or navy for the cape. Anything paler fights with her coat. A yellow zigzag doodled down the middle finishes it, and of all the coloring sheets of Rainbow Dash in this set, this is the one I’d hand to a kid who likes adding their own emblems.