Dog Coloring Pages for Kids — Free & Printable

The Sitting Puppy. The classic portrait, and the very first dog in our library: a friendly puppy sitting up tall and facing you, floppy ears, a ring-shaped spot around one eye, a collar with a round tag, and its tail curled up beside it. Big simple shapes make this the easiest dog for the youngest colorists.

The Spotted Dog. A spotted dog standing in side profile, tail up, ready to go. The big round spots are the whole fun of this page: color them brown like our finished version, black like a Dalmatian, or one color each — every spot is its own little coloring decision.

The Running Dog. Playtime at full speed: a happy dog mid-run, chasing a ball, ears flying and tongue out. This is the most energetic page in the set — a good one for bright, bold colors that match the motion.

The Sleeping Puppy. After all that running, a nap: a puppy curled up fast asleep in a round cushioned bed, head on its paws, with a crescent moon and little stars drifting above. A calm, gentle page with a few extra details — perfect for quiet time.

The Friendly Dog Face. Just the face, big and friendly: floppy ears, round happy eyes, a big nose, and a tongue-out smile. The face close-up is the fastest page to finish, which makes it a great warm-up page — and an easy one for little kids to decorate with spots or patches of their own.

The Dog with Its Bone. Dinner and a treat: a proud dog sitting between its food bowl, full of kibble, and a big bone almost as wide as it is. The bowl and the bone give this page fun extra shapes to color beyond the dog itself.

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 dog 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 dog against the colored one. Start with the real dog palette — warm browns, golden tan, black-and-white spots, or soft grey — and do not forget the pink tongue and pink inner ears.

The dogs live in the kids section of TimelapsePhoto.art, in the Animals category, alongside the cat, fox, bear, 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 dog 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. Crayons, markers, and colored pencils all work well on the bold outlines. Try a white dog with brown spots, a golden running dog with a bright red ball, a cream puppy on a blue bed, or a black-and-white dog for a Dalmatian look.

Here is the part that makes these dogs different from a static printable. On the kids page, press play on a dog 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 dog right before your eyes.

Teachers can build a whole dog moment around this. On the free For Teachers & Schools page, you can select all six dogs — 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 dog, upload it to the drawing animation tool, and watch their exact artwork redraw itself as a video — free, with no sign-up. And if your family has a real dog, our pet photo to coloring page guide shows how to turn its photo into a printable page of its very own.

1. Dogs dream, just like people. When a dog twitches, paddles its paws, or makes little sounds in its sleep, it is probably dreaming — often about the things it did that day. Puppies and older dogs dream the most.

2. Every dog nose print is unique. The pattern of ridges on a dog’s nose is one of a kind, a bit like a person’s fingerprint. Some organizations even use nose prints to identify dogs.

3. Puppies are born with their eyes closed. A newborn puppy cannot see or hear for its first couple of weeks — it finds its mother by smell and warmth. Its eyes open at about two weeks old.

4. Dogs can learn lots of words. Many dogs can learn over 100 words and gestures, and the smartest dogs can learn more than 1,000 names for different toys. Your dog really is listening when you talk.

5. One breed of dog cannot bark. The Basenji, an African hunting dog, is called the barkless dog — its larynx is shaped differently, so it makes a funny yodeling sound instead of a bark.

Dogs are six faces in a much bigger library. The kids page now has more than 110 printable outline pages across 14 categories — Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, Sea Animals, Animals, Dinosaurs, Space Explorers, Princess, K-Pop Stars, Mermaids, Fairies, Unicorns & Rainbows, Kid Superheroes, and Kawaii Food — every one free to print, and every one able to draw itself. Start with our cat coloring pages or bear coloring pages, our fox coloring pages and dinosaur coloring pages, or the seasonal sets: free Christmas coloring pages and free Thanksgiving coloring pages.

Want a coloring page of your own dog? The free photo to coloring page converter turns any photo — your dog, another pet, a family picture, a favorite toy — into a printable outline page, right in your browser, with a Color by Number mode too.