If you’re looking for a creative way to relax, try our free mandala coloring pages. They’re perfect for kids, teens and even adults! Choose a design from the gallery, color it on the website, or save it as a printable PDF.
Our collection has beginner, intermediate, and advanced mandalas. We have floral and geometric designs and pages that are very intricate. Some designs can be colored in a couple minutes. Others will take a lot longer to complete.
You can also check out our online coloring pages for more drawings that can be colored on a computer, tablet, or phone.
Choose a Free Mandala Coloring Pages – Color Online Or Print to Color
Color online, print, or download your favorite free mandala coloring pages – color online or print coloring page as PDF.
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Printable Mandala Coloring Pages PDF
Every mandala in our collection can be colored online or printed for offline coloring. Just click on your favorite design, save the PDF, and print it at home or at school.
Mandalas are great for coloring with crayons, colored pencils, markers, gel pens, and fine tip pens. If you want to use colored pencils or crayons, just use regular printer paper. If you want to use markers, it’s a good idea to use a thicker paper because markers can bleed through.
These coloring pages are perfect for family activities, school art time, homeschool lessons, and even breaks or rainy day activities! You can print one or several designs.
You can find more designs in our printable coloring pages PDF.
Mandala Coloring Pages for Kids
Kids can start with simple mandala coloring pages. Simple mandalas have larger spaces and fewer details. Simple mandalas are also easier to color with crayons and pencils.
Kids can shade using the same color for each section or color each section differently! No patterns needs to be followed. Kids coloring may choose coloring pages more colorfully and personally.
Coloring mandalas can also help kids practice:
- Recognizing and deciding on colors
- Following simple repeating patterns
- Controlling coloring tools
- Focusing on smaller sections
- Making creative choices
- Completing an activity at their own pace
These coloring pages can be used during quiet time, weekends, holidays, after school, or just for fun! Teachers can use them during preschool, kindergarten, and elementary art classes.
Try our educational coloring pages for more learning designs! Parents who want hands on activities can read the NAEYC fine motor skills guide.
Detailed Mandala Coloring Pages for Adults
Older kids and adults may enjoy coloring mandalas that are more intricate. These mandalas have more detailed designs with flowers and leaves along with lines and shapes that are repetitive and/or geometric.
Coloring detailed mandalas can be used to practice designing colors and shades as well as blending. Using colored pencils are better for coloring mandalas because coloring pencils help color small mandala spaces. Also, colored pencils are better color choices for mandalas because they control small spaces best. Gel pens and coloring pencils also help color mandalas.
Some people prefer starting in the center and working out. Some prefer to work in sections, coloring all shapes of the same color simultaneously. There is no right or wrong way, so consider what feels most natural to you.
A completed mandala can be framed, photographed, or gifted. You can relax your mind with adult coloring, as explained in the Cleveland Clinic’s article on adult coloring.
Floral and Geometric Mandalas
Mandalas that are floral in nature contain designs of leaves and vines and can contain petals and flowers arranged around the central point of the design. Floral mandalas can be colored in shades of nature like greens, pinks, and yellows, but flowers do not have to look realistic. Designs can be playful with color combinations that are more arbitrary and feature rainbow petals.
If you like drew other botanical images, you may be interested in our flower coloring pages.
Unlike Floral Mandalas, Geometric Mandalas contain images of repeating lines and designs of circles, triangles, diamonds, squares, and lines that are curved. Geometric Mandalas can look striking and beautiful if color choices are repeated throughout.
You can color using only two contrasting colors, or many shades of one color, or perhaps a gradient where the coloring is dark in the center and gets lighter as you work your way to the edge. You can find more images of repeating designs to color in on our pattern coloring pages.
Most Common Mandala Coloring Pages
Finding a mandala design that fits your preference is quite easy thanks to the many different styles that exist. Some of the more common styles are:
- Mandalas designed especially for kids
- Basic circular patterns
- Mandalas with a floral design
- Mandalas with geometric shapes
- Mandalas designed for adults
- Mandalas with the design of an animal
- Mandalas that incorporate nature and leave designs
- Mandalas in the shape of a heart
- Mandalas in the shape of a star
- Mandalas that incorporate abstract designs
Animal mandalas may depict butterflies, elephants, owls, turtles, birds, fish, cats, and even lions. Typically, the smaller patterns used to fill the animal outline are design patterns that allow for more creativity than a typical animal drawing.
If you are looking for more child-friendly designs, check out our animal coloring pages and bird coloring pages.
If you are looking for a coloring page that includes more magical characters, castles, dragons, and unlimited imagination, be sure to check our fantasy coloring pages.
What Makes Mandalas So Fun to Color
Mandalas give a coloring page a design structure, but still allow the colorist the freedom to design by choosing the colors to use.
For kids, this may be an easy page to work on coloring skills. For the older colorist, this may be a page to plan a color palette, or work on shading with different color pencil techniques, or add dimension by using a gel pen to add highlights.
Mandala pages can be used for a variety of relaxing or artful occasions. Some examples may include:
- Quiet time at home
- During art and craft lessons
- Breaks during homeschool
- Screen-free activity
- Rainy days
- Travel
- Classroom displays
You can color a few sections and leave the rest. When you’re ready, you can come back to finish coloring later.
Mandala Coloring Ideas
A common dilemma while coloring is figuring out how to choose and order colors. Don’t worry! You can pick three to four colors and repeat the same around the coloring page. You can also:
- Use rainbow colors from the center to the outside
- Use light and dark versions of the same color
- Use warm colors
- Use cool colors
- Use pastels
- Use black, gold, and silver
- Use two colors that are opposed
- Use metallic or glitter gel pens
You can pick whatever you like. Just don’t forget to do a test color before permanently choosing the color.
Using the mandala page is a great way to be creative. If you like coloring, there are many more designs available online. Feel free to explore!
Here’s a list of options available on Colorcraftworld:
- Online Coloring Pages
- Printable Coloring Pages
- Educational Coloring Pages
- Animal Coloring Pages
- Bird Coloring Pages
- Flower Coloring Pages
- Pattern Coloring Pages
- Fantasy Coloring Pages
Colorcraftworld is a great place to get new pictures to color!
What People are Asking
What are Mandala Coloring Pages?
They are pages with designs of a shape that is usually symmetrical, circular, or repetitive and can have flowers or other designs or patterns.
Do these Mandala Coloring Pages Cost Anything?
They are free! You can color them on the site or download them and print them.
Can I Print the Mandala Designs?
Yes, you can download the design you like and print it.
Do Kids Like Coloring Mandala Pages?
Yes, kids can use them as long as they have designs that are easy and big to color in, the smaller designs are better for older kids and adults.
Can Adults Use These Coloring Pages?
Yes, the detailed mandalas are great for adults since they take a longer and more detailed coloring session.