Free Printable Sloth Coloring Pages for Kids

These free printable sloth coloring pages are so cute and fun! Grab 10 free printable sloth coloring sheets for children to keep your kids happily busy and coloring.

Some of the cute sloths are semi-realistic, while others are more fanciful. They can be used a part of a lesson plan about sloths, tropical ecosystems, or to celebrate International Sloth Day. However you decide to use them, I hope you enjoy!

A preview of seven printable cute sloth coloring pages for children. The pages are on a light blue background with colorful children's markers.

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Like many children, my daughter loves sloths. She loves watching an episode of Planet Earth II with a pygmy sloth swimming in the water. If you’ve never seen a swimming sloth, a short clip from the episode is available for free from the BBC YouTube channel:

According to my daughter’s DK book on sloths, sloth are much faster in water than on land. Their long arms make them good swimmers! I’m always amazed by the new things I learn from my daughter’s nature books.

DK Readers Level 2: Sloths

DK (Author)
English (Publication Language)
48 Pages - 07/16/2019 (Publication Date) - DK Children (Publisher)

Slightly older children (8-10 years) will love this photo-packed Scholastic book about sloths. This book has lots of information to satisfy your child’s curiosity about these popular, slow-moving creatures.

Sloths (Nature's Children)

Gregory, Josh (Author)
English (Publication Language)
48 Pages - 09/01/2015 (Publication Date) - Children's Press (Publisher)

How to print and use coloring pages for kids

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. 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.

The benefit for you is that the thicker paper doesn’t bleed through as quickly so markers are less likely to stain your table again.

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My daughter’s favorite markers for 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! They can color fine detail and make broad strokes, too.

CYO585050 - Crayola Washable Super Tips Fine Line Markers

Manufacturer: Crayola

A top down view of a jar of Crayola super tip markers sitting on an out of focus coloring page

My daughter’s favorite crayons are Honeysticks natural beeswax crayons. The colors palette is fairly limited, but the colors are rich and creamy.

These crayons are made in New Zealand from pure beeswax with food grade colorants. If your child is still taste testing their crayons, this brings a lot of peace of mind.

My current favorite tools for coloring are gel pens. I wrote an entire post on the best gel pens for adult coloring, but there are my top budget and all around favorite gel pens for coloring;

Best Gel Pens

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens Gift Set, Ice Cream Smooth Gel Ink with Special...

Best Budget Pick

Gel Pens, 36 Colors Gel Pens Set for Adult Coloring Books, Colored Gel Pen...

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens Gift Set, Ice Cream Smooth Gel Ink with Special...

Best Gel Pens

Sakura Gelly Roll Pens Gift Set, Ice Cream Smooth Gel Ink with Special...

Best Budget Pick

Gel Pens, 36 Colors Gel Pens Set for Adult Coloring Books, Colored Gel Pen...

Printable sloth 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. Don’t worry – each cute sloth has its own page in the PDF!

Four free printable sloth coloring page previews in a 2x2 grid. Pages include: a sloth sleeping in a hammock, a sloth on a vertical tree, a sloth lying down on a branch, and a sloth sitting on a branch with a hummingbird

Four free printable sloth coloring page previews in a 2x2 grid. Pages include: A sloth with a butterfly, a sleeping sloth with a nightcap, a fishing sloth, and a sloth with a coconut tropical beverage in hand

Two free printable sloth coloring pages. The page on the left has a sloth sitting in a coconut. The page on the right has a sloth hanging from a tree branch.

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I hope you enjoy these sloth coloring pages for kids! If you or your children enjoy coloring, be sure to grab these additional free printable coloring sheets while you’re here on The Artisan Life: