Mandala coloring pages for kids

Flowers, butterflies, leaves, a sunflower, a rose, a forest, a horse and a tree of life. 16 mandala coloring pages for children, free to print as PDFs with no sign-up.

These are drawn for ages 6 to 8. A mandala is made of small cells that repeat around a centre, and it asks for a steady hand and some patience — expect one to last two sittings. What a child is really doing is planning: which colours, in what order, and how to keep the pattern going all the way round. Starting from the middle or from the edge both work. Use thin pencils or fine-tip markers; a chunky crayon will not fit the cells. For a younger child a mandala is usually the wrong page, however pretty it looks. The detail discourages more than it delights, and a page drawn for their own age will go better.