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10 Dinosaur Color by Number Pages (Free Printables)

By Zen Vibes Editors · Published

Dinosaurs are the animal children ask for most, and they suit color by number better than any other, because nobody knows what color they really were. The key says green, purple, or orange and every answer is right. This set opens with the simple pages: a round baby dinosaur, a long-neck reaching up into a tree for leaves, an egg cracking open with a head poking out.

Then the settings arrive: a three-horned dinosaur by a river, a plated dinosaur among ferns, a winged reptile over the waves, a mother beside a nest with one hatched baby and three eggs to go. The spiky-tail dinosaur is the sleeper favorite. The two big pages are a whole valley, with a long-neck, a smoking volcano, a river, and hills, and a dinosaur parade of five different kinds walking past a volcano in a line. Older children and adults take those slowly. Each page shows its finished picture too, so a child can choose by the result.

Designs
10
Paper sizes
US Letter and A4
Difficulty
very easy to detailed
Colors per page
3 to 10
Ages
2 to 12
Use
Free for personal, classroom, and therapy use

Compiled by Zen Vibes Editors.

How to print these pages

  1. Pick the paper size that matches what is in your printer: US Letter or A4.
  2. Open the PDF and choose Print. Set scale to 100 percent or “actual size” (not “fit to page”).
  3. Plain copy paper works for crayons and pencils. Use heavier cardstock for markers or paint.

Print at actual size on plain copy paper. Dinosaur keys use green and brown most, with a few surprise colors (purple spots, orange crests), so a full crayon box is handy.

Shapes, not species

Every page hints at a familiar kind (long neck, three horns, back plates, wings) without naming one, so children decide what they have colored. Teachers who want the science can add the names after.

Where the surprise colors are

Most keys use green, light green, and brown for the dinosaurs and ground, with light blue for sky and water. The spots, crests, and eggs are where a purple or an orange turns up, which is usually the part a child colors first.

Ideas for using these pages

  • Name the dino: color a page, then invent a name for the dinosaur and write it under the picture.
  • Size sort: after coloring three pages, line them up from the smallest dinosaur to the biggest.
  • Habitat talk: the scene pages show volcanoes, ferns, and rivers; talk about what each dinosaur might eat there.

Questions about this set

Are these real dinosaur species?
They are friendly cartoon versions inspired by real body types (long necks, horned heads, plated backs, flying reptiles) rather than accurate drawings of named species.
Which pages are easiest?
The single-dinosaur pages with three to five colors: the round baby dino, the long-neck eating leaves, and the egg with a hatching head. Each has big areas and a short key.

Usage: All designs in this set are original Zen Vibes drawings. Free for personal, classroom, and therapy use. Full terms of use.