Dinosaur Coloring Pages for Kids — Free & Printable

Tyrannosaurus rex — the tyrant lizard king. The T-rex is the most famous dinosaur of all, and ours is drawn friendly and smiling, with its big head, strong tail, and tiny two-fingered arms ready for any color a kid chooses. A real T-rex lived about 68 million years ago, grew about as long as a bus, and had banana-sized teeth made for crunching. On paper, though, the only rule is imagination: green is classic, but a purple T-rex with orange stripes has never once been wrong.

Triceratops — the three-horned face. Triceratops is easy to spot: two long horns over its eyes, a smaller horn on its nose, and a huge bony frill behind its head like a shield. It was a plant-eater that lived at the same time as T-rex, and its name means exactly what it looks like — three-horned face. The frill is the most fun part to color: it is one big canvas for patterns, spots, or a whole rainbow.

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

Every dinosaur 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 colored version's colors, invent completely different ones, or color the outline first and then check their finished dinosaur against the colored one. There is no wrong answer — scientists are still debating what colors real dinosaurs were, so a young artist's guess is as good as anyone's.

The dinosaurs live in the kids section of TimelapsePhoto.art, in the Dinosaurs category. Printing takes less than a minute:

1. 1. Open the kids page and tap the Dinosaurs category to see the T-rex and triceratops pictures.
2. 2. Open the outline picture — Dino 1 for the T-rex, Dino 2 for the triceratops — then use your browser's 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. Crayons, markers, and colored pencils all work well on the bold outlines. Print both dinosaurs and let kids stage the classic scene: the plant-eater and the king, side by side.

Here is the part that makes these dinosaurs different from a static printable. On the kids page, press play on a dinosaur 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 over the last part of the show, so a plain line drawing turns into a finished colored dinosaur right before your eyes.

Teachers can build a whole dinosaur moment around this. On the free For Teachers & Schools page, you can select both dinosaurs — 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. A two-dinosaur show runs about twenty seconds a page, which makes it a perfect settle-down opener before a dinosaur story or lesson.

Kids' own finished pages can join the fun as well: photograph a colored dinosaur, upload it on the kids page or the drawing animation tool, and watch their exact artwork redraw itself as a video — free, with no sign-up.

Dino Day at home: print both pages, color them, cut them out, and stand them up for a tabletop Jurassic scene. Add a paper volcano if you are feeling ambitious.

Name that dinosaur: while coloring, practice the big words — Tyrannosaurus rex and triceratops are wonderfully satisfying for kids to say out loud, and the facts above give you a story for each one.

Classroom fossil fun: pair the coloring pages with the drawing show on the teachers page — watch the T-rex draw itself and reveal its colors on the big screen, then hand out the printed outlines so every student can make their own version.

Dinosaurs are one corner of a much bigger library. The kids page has 60 pictures in all across seven categories — Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, Sea Animals, Animals, Dinosaurs, and Space Explorers — every one free to print, and every one able to draw itself. In season right now: our free Christmas coloring pages with Santa, a snowman, and a gingerbread house, and our free Thanksgiving coloring pages with a smiling turkey and a harvest cornucopia.

And a promise: the dinosaur herd is growing. More dinosaurs are on the way — when they stomp in, they will appear in the same Dinosaurs category, free like the rest.