15+ Free Printable Ladybug Coloring Pages for Kids

These free printable ladybug coloring pages are so cute and fun! Grab 15+ free printable ladybug/ladybird coloring sheets for children to keep your kids happily busy and coloring.

Ten of the cartoon ladybugs have a doodle frame for simpler coloring pages that are perfect for younger children. Six of the pages have a more detailed background scene to color. For very young children, like toddlers and preschoolers, you can use these free printable ladybug templates as a coloring page.

A preview of 10 cute cartoon ladybug coloring pages on a blue background. Pages include ladybugs with flowers, flying ladybugs, a dancing ladybug, and a ladybug with sunglasses lounging on a leaf.

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These coloring sheets can be used for anytime fun or as part of a homeschool lesson plan about ladybugs, spring, gardening, or insects. Ladybugs are fascinating. Although they're cute and harmless to humans, they're menacing predators in the insect world. Their nymph form is pretty wicked looking and devours aphids. I'm a gardener, so I love ladybugs. If you like gardening, too, make sure to grab your free printable gardening planner in this post.

The book Life Cycle of a Ladybug is a great look at these beetles written for younger children (kindergarten and early elementary).

The Life Cycle of a Ladybug (Blastoff! Readers: Life Cycles) (Life Cycles:...

Colleen Sexton (Author)
English (Publication Language)
24 Pages - 01/01/2016 (Publication Date) - Blastoff! Readers (Publisher)

It's a Good Thing There Are Ladybugs is another cute, but factual and informative, book about ladybugs for young learners.

It's a Good Thing There Are Ladybugs (Rookie Read-About Science: It's a...

Mattern, Joanne (Author)
English (Publication Language)
32 Pages - 09/01/2014 (Publication Date) - Children's Press (Publisher)

How to print and use ladybird coloring pages

Printing and using these coloring pages is pretty straightforward - print them off and hand them over to your child.

I recommend printing the coloring pages on 32 lb bright white paper for the best coloring experience. Remember those yellow, rough coloring pages in coloring books as a child? They're not that fun to color on. This 32 lb paper is smooth and bright for vibrant colors and easy coloring.

Another bonus is that the thicker paper doesn't bleed through as quickly so markers are less likely to stain your table again.

HP Paper Printer | 8.5 x 11 Paper | Premium 32 lb | 1 Ream - 500 Sheets |...

Made in USA: HP Papers is sourced from renewable forest resources and has achieved production with 0% deforestation in North America.
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Our favorite markers for children's coloring are Crayola Supertips. They’re affordable and fun for both adults and children. They’re fairly washable, available in a wide variety of colors, and you can even use them for hand lettering practice!

Crayola 585050 Washable Super Tips Markers, Assorted, 50/Set

Sold as 50/ST.
Markers have tips that are smooth, not scratchy.
Fine line markers with a versatile tip that draws thick or thin lines.

My daughter’s favorite crayons are Honeysticks natural beeswax crayons. The colors palette is limited, but the colors are rich and creamy. She used to always complain about not being able to see most of the colors from her major name brand crayon set. She never complains of not being able to see what she colors with Honeysticks.

These crayons have the added benefit of being pure beeswax, which means they’re safe for little mouths that can’t always resist tasting their crayons. They're made in New Zealand so you don't have to worry about random toxins and contaminates. (Remember all that news a couple of years ago about toxic crayons?)

Honeysticks Jumbo Crayons (8 Pack) - Non Toxic Crayons - 100% Pure Beeswax...

PURITY YOU CAN TRUST: Handmade in New Zealand using Natural Beeswax and Food Grade Pigments for Color. Made without the petroleum-based parrafin wax...
JUMBO SIZE THAT IS EASY TO HOLD: Each large crayon is 3.9" long and 0.47" thick making them easy to hold and use. The classic Crayon shape also helps...
BIG CRAYONS ARE EASY TO HOLD, HARDER TO BREAK: Honeysticks Beeswax Crayons are easy for small hands to hold, but hard for small hands to break!...

It may sound strange, but you can laminate these pages for repeated use. We recently discovered Stabilo Woody 3 in 1 pencils. They're basically a large wax crayon in a wooden pencil format. You can use them instead of a dry erase marker, so they can be used to color laminated coloring pages. This means you can make reusable coloring pages. What a time saver! Just print and laminate them once. (The image below is from these free printable dinosaur coloring pages. Click over to that post to see a video of these pencils in action on a laminated page.)

Hands holding a box of 6 Stabilo Woody colored pencils above a partially colored printable page with a triceratops

Stabilo Woody pencils are remarkably good at coloring on laminated pages with rich, vibrant colors. Reusable coloring pages are amazing - just wipe them down with a very lightly damp towel and the pencil comes right off. No more printing favorite pages a zillion times. Just print and laminate them once for virtually endless coloring fun.

STABILO Multi-Talented Pencil woody 3 in 1 - Pack of 6 - Assorted Colors...

Washable
XXL lead applies as much pigment as 8 colored pencils at once
Large width ideal for smaller hands

Cleaning the pencil off is easy with a very slightly damp towel. Move to a clean spot on the towel, as needed, and use firm strokes in one direction to clean up quickly and easily.

Printable ladybug coloring page download information

Download information is located below the preview images. Making these files individually downloadable would be boring and repetitive, so they're all conveniently located in one free PDF. The preview images are shown in groups of four to keep this post from being a mile long with 16 separate images. Don't worry - each ladybug has its own page in the PDF!

Four free printable ladybug coloring pages for kids in a 2x2 grid. The pages show: a ladybug flying away, a ladybug with a magnifying glass, a ladybug riding on a vine, and a ladybug flying with a daisy

Four free printable ladybug coloring pages for kids in a 2x2 grid. The pages show: a ladybug hugging a heart, an excited ladybug with a flower crown, a ladybug holding onto a leaf, and a ladybug playing drums

Four free printable ladybug coloring pages for kids in a 2x2 grid. The pages show: a ladybug flying with a dandelion seed, a ladybug hanging her spotted wings on a coat hoot, a ladybug relaxing on a flower, and a ladybug with sunglasses

Four free printable ladybug coloring pages for kids in a 2x2 grid. The pages show: a ladybug sleeping on a leaf, a ladybug dancing on a flower, a ladybug on a swing, and a ladybug with a float ring standing on a lily pad.

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