Bookmarks for Kids to Color
Twenty-seven printable bookmarks for kids to color — a hot air balloon, a koi pond, a hedgehog in the leaves, a steam train — all in bold line art with a name banner drawn into every design. Build a mixed sheet, put a name on each one, and print a free PDF for the crayon bin.
Build the sheet.
Everything happens in your browser — no upload, no signup, no watermark. Tap a design to add it; use Fill sheet for a matching set.
0 of 4 slots filled. Mix designs freely, or use “Fill sheet” for 4 of one design.
Add designs first — then you can put a child’s name on each bookmark, in your pick of four typefaces.
US Letter, 4per sheet with a small cutting gap between bookmarks. Print on card stock at 100% scale (no “fit to page”).
Your sheet preview appears here once you add designs.
Twenty-seven scenes, no single theme.
Deliberately mixed rather than one subject repeated twenty-seven ways — so a table of four kids can each find something they actually want to color.
I drew this set after watching a kid abandon a dinosaur bookmark halfway through because he wanted to color a train. A themed pack is only fun if the child happens to like the theme — so this one is balloons and boats and cats and cabins all in the same twenty-seven, and everybody gets to pick.— David, Apollo’s Templates
Before you hand out the crayons.
What can kids color on these bookmarks?
Twenty-seven everyday scenes rather than one theme: a hot air balloon, a biplane, a steam locomotive, a classic car, a bicycle with a flower basket, a sailboat, a canoe on a lake, a lighthouse, a windmill, a beach umbrella, a campfire and tent, a log cabin, a garden gate, a city park, a rainy window, a coffee house, a teapot, a mushroom hollow, a koi pond, a cactus in the desert, mountains at sunrise, a cat on a bookshelf, a deer in the pines, a hedgehog in the leaves, a songbird, a hummingbird, and two figures holding hands.
What age are these bookmarks for?
The shapes are drawn big and closed, so a four-year-old with fat crayons can fill them in without much going astray. There's enough detail — balloon panels, brickwork, koi scales, hedgehog spines — that eight- and nine-year-olds don't finish one in ninety seconds either. They are not intricate adult-style coloring pages; nothing here needs a fine-liner.
How is this different from the school set?
The school collection is built around the classroom — the bus, the chalkboard, recess, the graduation cap — and is sized for teachers printing a set for every desk. This set is everyday and outdoor scenes with no school theme at all, which suits home, a rainy afternoon, a birthday party table, or a library summer reading program.
Can I put each child's name on their own bookmark?
Every design has a name banner drawn into the artwork near the bottom. Type a name per bookmark and it prints inside that banner in your pick of four typefaces — Playfair, Tinos, Dancing Script or Prata — and the banner's own border is colorable too. The name is printed into the artwork rather than left as an editable field, so type it the way you want it printed.
Are these bookmarks for kids really free?
Completely — no account, no watermark, no limit on how many you print. The PDF is built by your own browser, so nothing you type, including children's names, is uploaded anywhere.
Updated through August 2026.