Bear Coloring Pages for Kids — Free & Printable

The Sitting Bear. The classic portrait: a friendly bear sitting up tall and facing you, round ears up and big paws planted in front. Big simple shapes make this the easiest bear for the youngest colorists — and that round belly is one big, satisfying sweep of brown.

The Walking Bear. A bear on the move, walking in side profile on all fours with its nose up, sniffing the air. Bears really do walk like this through the forest, following their noses — a bear’s sense of smell is even better than a bloodhound’s.

The Baby Bear Cub. A baby bear is called a cub, and cubs are born tiny in the middle of winter, in the den. This little one sits in the grass among simple flowers — a gentle page for preschoolers, with the flowers and grass as a bonus coloring treat.

The Bear and the Honey Pot. The sweetest page in the set: a happy bear next to a big dripping honey pot, with two small bees keeping an eye on their honey. Bears love honey so much they will climb trees and brave bee stings to reach a hive — the golden honey is the most fun part to color.

The Sleeping Bear. A bear curled up fast asleep in its winter cave, snow falling softly outside. This is hibernation: in cold places bears sleep through most of the winter, living off the fat they built up in summer and fall. The cave, pines, and snowflakes make this the most detailed page — a lovely quiet-time color.

The Friendly Bear Face. Just the face, big and friendly: round ears, a round snout, and a wide smile. The face close-up is the fastest page to finish and the most fun to decorate — rosy cheeks, a patterned forehead, or a bow on one ear.

All six outline pages and all six colored versions are completely free — no account, no sign-up, no watermark. Just open, print, and color.

Every bear in the set also has a finished colored version. They are lovely to look at on their own — and on the kids page they do something special, explained below: they draw their own outlines first, and then their colors fade in.

Coloring tip: kids can copy the colors from the finished versions, invent completely different ones, or color the outline first and then check their finished bear against the colored one. A purple bear breaks no rules — real brown bears keep their brown, but paper bears can be anything.

The bears live in the kids section of TimelapsePhoto.art, in the Animals category, alongside the fox, cat, dog, sheep, elephant, and unicorn pages. Printing takes less than a minute:

1. 1. Open the kids page and tap the Animals category to see all six bear pictures.
2. 2. Open the outline picture you want, then use your browser print option (or save the image first and print it). The high-contrast black-and-white outlines print cleanly on standard letter or A4 paper.
3. 3. Color away. The real brown bear palette is a perfect starter: warm brown for the coat, lighter tan for the muzzle and belly, dark brown or black for the nose, and golden yellow for the honey. Crayons, markers, and colored pencils all work well on the bold outlines.

Here is the part that makes these bears different from a static printable. On the kids page, press play on a bear and it draws itself stroke by stroke, like an invisible hand is sketching it. With the colored versions, there is a second act: once the outline is complete, the full color fades in, so a plain line drawing turns into a finished colored bear right before your eyes.

Teachers can build a whole bear moment around this. On the free For Teachers & Schools page, you can select all six bears — outline and colored versions alike — and play them as one continuous drawing show on the classroom screen, add your school logo, loop it for quiet time, or record it as a single video.

Kids own finished pages can join the fun as well: photograph a colored bear, upload it to the drawing animation tool, and watch their exact artwork redraw itself as a video — free, with no sign-up. Or turn a photo of a real pet into its own printable page with our pet photo to coloring page guide.

1. Brown bears are the bears in these pages. They live in forests and mountains across North America, Europe, and Asia, and their coats can range from light tan to nearly black — so any brown shade your child picks is a real bear color.

2. Bears sleep through winter. In cold places, a bear spends the winter hibernating in a den — like the sleeping bear in this set — barely moving for months, then wakes up in spring hungry and ready to explore.

3. Cubs stay with their mother a long time. Bear cubs are born in the den in mid-winter, tiny and with their eyes closed, and they stay with their mother for about two years, learning where to find food and how to stay safe.

4. A bear’s nose knows everything. Bears have one of the best senses of smell of any land animal — better than a dog’s. A bear can smell food from more than a mile away, which is how it finds berries, fish, and yes, honey.

5. Bears eat almost everything. Bears are omnivores: berries, nuts, roots, insects, fish, and honey are all on the menu. That is why a bear’s day is mostly one long, ambling search for snacks — just like the walking bear in this set.

Bears are six new faces in a much bigger library. The kids page now has more than 100 pictures across nine categories — Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, Sea Animals, Animals, Dinosaurs, Space Explorers, Princess, and K-Pop Stars — every one free to print, and every one able to draw itself. Start with our fox coloring pages or dinosaur coloring pages, or the seasonal sets: free Christmas coloring pages and free Thanksgiving coloring pages.

Want a coloring page of your own animal? The free photo to coloring page converter turns any photo — a pet, a family picture, a favorite toy — into a printable outline page, right in your browser.