Do mythical creatures fill your daydreams? Now they can fill your art projects as well. Simply download, print, and color these free mythical creatures coloring pages for kids.
These coloring sheets make a great addition to a study of ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian myths. You can learn about the history of these nations as you color the creatures.
You could also color and cut out characters to serve as puppets or illustrations for storytelling. How many books or movies do you know of that include some of these mythical creatures?
Feel free to color your creatures in any way you want. After all, you can use your imagination with imaginary animals!
Online Coloring Pages for Kids
Get creative with this interactive fairy coloring page. Experiment with unique color combinations and see which one looks the best!
In addition to the usual printable coloring pages, we also have online coloring available for every coloring sheet in this post!
Just scroll down, and you'll find the coloring options for each coloring page.
Free Mythical Creatures Coloring Pages for Kids
Anime Vampire Girl Coloring Sheet
Vampires usually have pale skin. We’ve given our example red eyes, silvery hair, and a trickle of red blood at the corners of her mouth.
Cartoon Witch Coloring Sheet
Cartoon witches often have green skin, but they could have human skin tones. Their hair is usually aged white. They usually wear black garments, but these too could be any color.
Griffin Coloring Sheet
Griffins are half lions, and they have golden brown fur. In our example, the eagle part has a white head like a bald eagle. He could be brown, golden, or reddish instead.
Fire Breathing Dragon Coloring Sheet
We’ve made the dragon in our example green, but it could be black, red, gold, brown, or some other color. It is breathing a stream of red and yellow fire.
Anime Wolf Girl Coloring Sheet
Wolves are often black, white, gray, brown, or reddish. Can you make this girl’s wolf ears and tail match the color of her hair?
Mermaid Coloring Sheet
We’ve given the mermaid in our example pink hair and a green fishtail. What color will yours be? Don’t forget to print and color her mermaid friend below.
Pegasus Coloring Sheet
The Pegasus is usually depicted as having white fur, sometimes with a blue mane or feathers. But you could color and pattern yours like any horse.
Easy Cartoon Fairy Coloring Sheet
This forest fairy has leafy wings. You could color the wings green, or make them yellow, orange, or red like autumn leaves.
Ghost Coloring Sheet
Ghosts like this one are usually depicted in white and sometimes pale green. You could make it any color you’d wish.
Easy Gnome Coloring Sheet
Most gnomes have red floppy hats. Their beards are usually white and their clothes are red, green, or brown.
Phoenix Coloring Sheet
The phoenix is a fiery-colored bird as it rises from the ashes. That is why it is shaded in orange, yellow, and red.
Centaur Coloring Sheet
Being part man and part horse, the centaur could have skin, hair, and fur in any of the colors that humans and horses do.
Vampire Coloring Sheet
Vampires typically have pale skin, dark hair, and dark eyes. Sometimes they have white or silver hair and red eyes.
Japanese Dragon Coloring Sheet
Japanese dragons are often shaded in red and gold. In our example, the dragon has red scales on its back with a yellow belly and hair.
Jumping Unicorn Coloring Sheet
This coloring sheet was inspired by Lisa Frank’s Markie the Unicorn. He has white fur and a rainbow-tinted mane and tail.
Leprechaun Coloring Sheet
Leprechauns like this one are typically dressed in green. You can color another leprechaun listed below.
Krampus Coloring Sheet
The Krampus is said to have black or dark brown goat like fur. Its hair and its cloaks should match. It carries brown sticks.
Cartoon Werewolf Coloring Sheet
Black, gray, brown, or some other wolflike color? You might even make a rare white werewolf. But the question remains—will he be friend or foe?
Realistic Dragon Coloring Sheet
In our example, we’ve colored the dragon red like Smaug from The Lord of the Rings. You can make your dragon any color you’d like.
Kraken Coloring Sheet
Sometimes this monster is depicted as black with red eyes. At other times, it is colored orange or red, similar to the real-life giant squid and colossal squid.
Simple Cute Mermaid Coloring Sheet
Will you give this mermaid red hair and a green tail like Ariel? Or will she have blonde hair as in our example? The choice is yours.
Flying Dragon Coloring Sheet
We’ve shaded the dragon in our example green, just as many snakes and lizards are green. What color will yours be?
Demon Face Coloring Sheet
In Fantasia, a creature like this one was black and shadowy. When Jack-Jack of Disney’s The Incredibles turned into a demon child, he had red skin.
Sphinx Coloring Sheet
The Sphinx statue was carved from sandy-colored stone. Even the fur of its lionlike body would be a similar golden brown.
Nine-Tailed Fox Coloring Sheet
Ninetails the Pokémon is a white nine-tailed fox. Often, they are depicted as red or orange like the red foxes they are based upon.
Werewolf Coloring Sheet
Werewolves are usually depicted as having brown or grey fur, very much like actual wolves. What colors are the shreds of its clothes?
Ice Dragon Coloring Sheet
If this dragon is truly made of ice, it might be light blue like many icicles. Or you could color it gray or brown so that it seems to be made of stone.
Cthulhu Coloring Sheet
This mysterious creature is depicted in many colors, including green, black, and red. It is often given glowing red or orange eyes.
Fairy Coloring Sheet
This fairy has insect-like wings. Will you make them a translucent white or blue, or will they be many colored like the wings of a butterfly?
Elf Coloring Sheet
If this is a Christmas elf, you will likely find him dressed in red and green. Even a forest elf would likely wear the earthy colors of green and brown.
Cartoon Leprechaun Coloring Sheet
Leprechauns are usually depicted wearing many shades of green. Interestingly, St. Patrick’s original color was blue. You could make a unique blue leprechaun. Color the contents of the pot yellow because the coins are made of gold.
Cerberus Coloring Sheet
Cerberus is often depicted with black, brown, or even red fur. The first two colors are similar to those of actual dogs, while the third is derived from the fact that it guards the gates of the underworld.
Unicorn Coloring Sheet
Sometimes unicorns are shown to have white fur, at other times black or brown fur. Have you ever seen a unicorn with spots or stripes? You could color one.
Troll Coloring Sheet
Trolls, like ogres, are often depicted with green skin. At other times, their skin is gray or tan.
Medusa Coloring Sheet
The Medusa was said to turn people into stone, and her skin is sometimes a stony gray. In other depictions, she and her snakes are green.
Which of these mythical creatures coloring pages was your favorite?
Which of these mythical creatures coloring pages was your favorite? Did you prefer the ones that smile or scowl?
You can create your own myth-themed coloring book by printing out your favorite pages and binding them together with staples, tape, or ribbons. You could make a book themed of Greek mythology, friendly creatures, or scary ones.
See a Google Web Story of this Mythical Creatures Coloring Ideas Blog Post.
