21 Princess Coloring Pages: Chibi, Royal and Fairytale Scenes
Twenty-one princess coloring pages, all in one place — and they are not twenty-one versions of the same girl in the same dress. There are chibi princesses with eyes the size of saucers, a queen holding court between two armed guards, a sea king cradling his mermaid daughter, and a princess who has clearly been told she is not going to the ball. Some are wide-open and forgiving for a five-year-old with a fistful of crayons. Others carry enough line detail to keep an adult busy for an entire evening.
Each page below comes with a note on what makes it worth colouring: where to start, which part will fight you, and what colour choice actually changes the picture. Skim the pictures first, pick the one that pulls at you, and ignore the rest until later.
For a set built around a single studio’s look, the 30 Disney coloring pages run from bold toddler outlines to a lace ballgown that needs a fine liner.
If you want the same gowns and tiaras in a modern doll style, the Barbie coloring pages cover ball gowns, royal carriages and castle balconies across 27 printables.
Every princess story needs its dragon, and the dragon coloring pages here include an armoured knight facing one down, sword raised.
That rainbow behind the unicorn is the whole trick of this opening page: it is the only place with a fixed colour order, so it anchors everything else. Pick the gown from the rainbow rather than the other way round, and the picture holds together. If the unicorn is the part that grabbed you, we have a whole set of unicorn coloring pages built around manes and horns.
21 Princess Coloring Pages to Work Through
1. Freckled Portrait in a Laced Bodice
A close, semi-realistic portrait: freckles scattered over the nose, heavy lashes, and hair that falls in loose ropes well past the waist. The hair is the real job here. It is drawn as dozens of thin overlapping strands, and if you fill it in one flat tone the whole face goes dull. Lay down your lightest blond or brown across all of it first, then darken only the channels between strands. The laced ribbon down the bodice is the one place to let a contrasting colour sing.
2. Princess Holding a Fluffy Kitten
Seen in profile, eyes lowered, lifting a very fluffy kitten up towards her chin. Two textures sit right next to each other — her smooth waved hair and the cat’s broken, spiky fur — and the page only works if you keep them different. Long even strokes for the hair, short flicked strokes for the kitten, all pointing outward from its body. Colour the cat in a shade that has nothing in common with her dress so the two shapes separate. Anyone who wants more animal practice will find plenty in these cat drawing ideas.
3. Wide-Eyed Princess with Clasped Hands
Big-eyed and gentle, hands folded up at her chest, with a forest sketched so faintly behind her that it is almost a suggestion. The open areas are generous, which makes this a good page for a child who is still learning to stop at a line. Leave a white crescent in each eye when you colour the iris — that untouched speck is what makes the eyes look wet instead of flat, and it is the single most common thing beginners colour over by accident. Her puffed sleeves are the other place worth slowing down: a band of shadow where each sleeve meets the arm is all it takes to stop them looking like flat circles pinned to her shoulders.
4. Rose Crown, Roses Everywhere
Roses crown her head and bloom again across the bottom of the page — the same spiral shape repeated at a dozen sizes. That repetition is a gift: colour every rose a slightly different value of the same hue and the picture gains depth without you ever changing pencils. Darkest in the tight centre spiral, lightest on the outer petal edges. If roses turn out to be your thing, these rose coloring pages are nothing but petals.
5. Star Wand and Solid Black Hair
The only page here where part of the decision has already been made for you: her hair is printed solid black, framing the figure like a curtain. That fixes the contrast, so everything else can be soft without the picture going washed out. Stars are scattered over her skirt and floating in the air around her — colour a few of them and leave the rest white, or the sparkle turns into wallpaper. Good page for a younger child, since the shapes are large and the outline is thick.
6. Beaded Bodice in a Palace Hall
Three-quarter view, floral band in the hair, a single drop earring, and a bodice covered in small beaded scrollwork above a very wide skirt. The bodice and the skirt want opposite treatments: work the beading with a sharp pencil point and small pressure, then switch to the flat side of the lead for the skirt so it stays smooth. Faint columns behind her are best left pale — push them and she stops standing forward. There is more gown construction to study in these dress coloring pages.
7. Tall Crown, Enormous Eyes
Chibi proportions taken about as far as they go — the crown is nearly as tall as her head, and the eyes take up half her face. Everything below the shoulders is a plain sweep of fabric with a jewel brooch at the throat, so this colours up fast. That makes it the page to hand a child who wants a finished picture in ten minutes. The crown alone deserves metallic treatment; more royal headgear waits in these crown coloring pages.
8. Snow Falling on a Braided Princess
She is grinning, wrapped in a heavy cloak with a thick braid over one shoulder, and the air around her is full of falling flakes and bare grey branches. The trap on winter pages is colouring the snow. Leave every flake white and put the cold into the background instead — pale blue-grey behind the flakes makes them appear, and the paper does the work. Her tiara is drawn as chunky faceted blocks, so treat each facet as its own small shape rather than colouring the crown as one piece.
9. Freckles and a Castle in the Distance
Hands clasped low, a scatter of freckles, and castle towers drawn so lightly behind her that they read as memory rather than architecture. This is a small lesson in depth without any drawing skill required: keep every background colour weak and greyed, keep her dress fully saturated, and the distance appears on its own. Pressing hard on those towers is the fastest way to flatten the page. Her freckles are worth a light hand too — dotted in with a sharp orange-brown pencil after the skin tone is down, never before, or they smear into the base colour and read as dirt.
10. Rose Arch with Three Cats Underfoot
She stands under a garden arch smothered in climbing roses, and three cats have positioned themselves around the hem of her gown — one peering out from each side, one crouched low. Colour the cats first. They are the smallest shapes and the easiest to lose, and once the arch is green they disappear into it. Give each cat a different coat and the bottom third of the page suddenly has a story in it.
11. Two Princesses, Cheek to Cheek
Two girls pressed cheek to cheek with their arms wrapped around one another, one in a patterned two-piece outfit, the other in a long embroidered gown with a blossom tucked in her hair. Their heads overlap, which is exactly where a colouring page gets tricky — where one girl’s hair crosses the other’s, darken the strand behind so the front one lifts clear. Complementary dress colours, one warm and one cool, will do the same job. Their outfits are deliberately unmatched — one wears a cropped patterned top over a long skirt, the other a single flowing gown — so resist the urge to colour them as a matching pair. Two different palettes make them look like two people rather than one girl duplicated.
12. Flower Staff and Crossed Arms
Freckled, faintly amused, arms folded across her chest around a long staff with a flower at the tip. The staff runs the full height of the page and cuts straight through her hair, which is the one bit worth planning: colour the staff in something dark and solid so it stays a single continuous line instead of breaking up every time it crosses a strand. Her folded arms create the other bit of overlap — forearm across bodice — and the same rule applies: darken the fabric directly behind the arm and the pose reads instantly. Otherwise the arms sink into the dress and she looks armless, which is a strangely common result on this page.
13. Ruffled Ballgown on the Palace Stairs
Full length, gathering her skirt in both hands, standing in a hall of tall arches with a staircase climbing behind her. The skirt is built from stacked ruffles, and ruffles only look like fabric when the underside of each fold is darker than the top. Do one pass of flat colour over the whole skirt, then go back and shade only the shadow line beneath each layer. The architecture is intricate — leave it in greys and let the gown be the only saturated thing on the page.
14. Queen Enthroned Between Two Guards
The most demanding page in the set, and the most rewarding. A young queen sits dead centre on a carved throne, hair falling in long straight sheets past a spiked crown, expression giving away nothing. Two armoured guards stand at her shoulders with sword points resting on the floor; heraldic banners hang from the ceiling above. Nobody is smiling. Work outside in — banners, then guards, then throne, then the queen last — so your hand never rests on finished work, and keep the guards’ armour cold and metallic against whatever warm colour you give her gown.
15. Snowy Street, Seen from Behind
Here she has her back to us, walking away down a cobbled street strung with garlands and paper snowflakes, fir trees on both sides, a castle waiting at the far end. Because we never see her face, the setting carries the whole mood — this is a page about a place, not a person. Warm yellow in the shop windows against cold blue-grey snow is the single choice that turns it from a winter street into a winter evening. It sits nicely alongside our Christmas coloring pages if you are building a seasonal stack.
16. Tea Tray with the Prince
A prince in a high-collared military coat and a princess in a delicate tiara, both hands on a small tray holding a teacup and a slice of cake. His coat is all buttons, braid and epaulettes — dense repeating detail — while her gown is comparatively plain. Balance that by keeping his coat to one colour and putting your patterning effort into her bodice instead. The cake is the smallest object on the page and the best place for the one bright colour nothing else uses.
17. Ballgown and a Broom
A tiara, a full skirt, and a straw broom — the Cinderella beat, told without a word of text. She stands in a stone-walled room beside a heavy hearth, and the contrast between rough block masonry and her smooth gown is the point of the page. Give the stones visible variation, a slightly different grey per block, and let the dress stay flat and clean. The broom bristles take a scratchy dry stroke that nothing else on the page wants.
18. Flower Crown and a Sleeping Dog
Both of them have their eyes shut. She wears a wide crown of open blooms and rests her cheek against the head of a long-haired dog she is holding against her chest, leaves crowding in from the edges. Unlike most pages here it is drawn with soft graded shading rather than clean outlines, so it suits pencils far better than markers — markers will bulldoze the tonal work already on the page. The dog’s coat runs in long wavy locks; follow their direction and it will read as fur. There are more coats to practise on in these dog coloring pages.
19. The Princess and the Frog
She kneels with her skirt pooled around her, one hand out towards a frog nearly the size of her torso, and the frog is grinning back. There is no background at all — just two figures on white — which makes this the most portable page in the set and the easiest to finish in one sitting. That empty space is an invitation: a pond edge, some reeds, a few lily pads, and the page becomes yours. Small children love it because the frog is comic rather than realistic. If you want the frog to look damp rather than merely green, leave two small white patches on the dome of his back and one on each eye, then build the green up around them in a couple of light layers instead of one heavy pass.
20. Sea King and His Mermaid Daughter
A bearded king in a heavy jewelled crown cradles a small mermaid against his chest, her scaled tail curled over his arm, a flower tucked into her hair. Both have their eyes closed. Kelp and bubbles drift up the sides of the frame. The tail is hundreds of individual overlapping scales — the slowest, most meditative stretch of colouring on this page, and worth doing properly: shade the bottom edge of each scale and skip the top, and the tail turns three-dimensional. Underwater scenes suit these dolphin coloring pages too.
21. The Distinctly Unimpressed Princess
Eyebrows down, mouth set in a firm line, hands clasped in front of her — she is standing in a vaulted hall of pointed arches and she is not happy about something. Worth ending on, because it is the only face in the collection that is not being pleasant, and children respond to it immediately. Warm reds and oranges push the sulk; cool blues make her look sad instead. Same lines, two entirely different pictures, which makes it a genuinely useful lesson in what colour does to mood. For younger hands who like this chibi shape, try our baby princess coloring pages.
Picking the Right Page for the Right Child
Handing a four-year-old the throne room is how you end up with an abandoned page and a discouraged child. The pages here fall into three rough tiers, and matching the tier to the person matters more than anything else on this list. Difficulty is not about how pretty a page looks — it is about how many separate enclosed shapes it contains and how small the smallest of them is.
- Thick lines, big shapes (ages 3–6): numbers 5, 7, 19 and 21. Few enclosed areas, wide margins for error, finished in one sitting.
- Detail without overwhelm (ages 7–12): numbers 3, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 17. Enough small parts to reward care, not so many that a child stalls halfway.
- Long-session pages (teens and adults): numbers 1, 13, 14, 18 and 20. Fine line work, texture, and real tonal decisions. Expect an hour or more.
One caveat on the middle tier: a child who is comfortable with number 3 will not automatically manage number 10, because the cats there are small and easy to lose under a heavy hand. If you are unsure, print two pages of different difficulty and let them choose. Children pick accurately when nobody is watching, and there are gentler starting points across our easy drawing ideas for kids if even the simplest page here feels like a stretch.
Four Ways to Get More Out of These Pages
Design the Dress Instead of Filling It
Most gowns on these pages are printed as blank fabric, which means they are a design brief rather than a colouring task. A striped skirt, a scattering of hand-drawn stars, a hem border of tiny repeated leaves — all of it can be added straight over the top with a fine pen before any colour goes down. Children who find plain colouring boring often turn out to love this, because they are making decisions instead of following them.
Break the Rules on Hair Colour
Lavender hair, sea-green hair, a gown that shifts from blue at the bodice to green at the hem — none of it costs anything to try, and blending two shades into each other on a single skirt is genuinely good practice at controlling pressure. The one rule worth keeping: pick your fantasy colour first and choose everything else around it, rather than adding it at the end and hoping.
Finish the Empty Backgrounds
Several pages here — 19 in particular, and 5 — sit on plain white. Adding a horizon line, a castle silhouette, or a scatter of trees behind the figure teaches more about composition than an hour of colouring inside lines. Keep added background elements smaller and paler than the princess and she will stay the subject. Anyone who wants scenery practice can work through our landscape coloring pages first.
Add the Animal That Isn’t There
Three pages already come with animals — the kitten, the garden cats, the dog. The rest are wide open. A bird on a shoulder, a fox at the hem, a dragon curled in the corner of the throne room: adding a creature gives a child something to invent rather than merely complete, and fur, feathers and scales all demand different pencil strokes, which is quiet technique practice disguised as play.
What Colouring Actually Builds
The developmental case for colouring is real, though it is usually overstated. What is defensible:
- Grip and control: staying inside the beading on a bodice demands the same small, controlled hand movements that handwriting does, and children practise them willingly here.
- Sustained attention: a page like the throne room asks for forty unbroken minutes. That stamina is trainable, and colouring is one of the few things children will happily train it on.
- Colour judgement: choosing between two greens that look nearly identical, and deciding which one sits behind the other, is a real perceptual skill.
- Storytelling: ask why the princess on page 21 is cross. The answer is usually elaborate, and getting a child to narrate their own picture does more for language than the colouring does for anything.
Set them up somewhere with decent light, put out more than one medium — pencils, markers and a few gel pens covers most preferences — and then leave the choices alone. A princess with green skin is not a mistake to be corrected.
Frequently Asked Questions
What paper works best for these pages?
Standard printer paper is fine for coloured pencils. For markers, print on something heavier — 120gsm or above — or put a spare sheet underneath, because alcohol markers will bleed straight through 80gsm and ghost onto whatever is below. The heavily shaded pages, 18 and 20, are best on slightly textured paper, which grips pencil pigment and lets you build tone in layers.
Which page should a nervous beginner start with?
Number 19, the frog page. It has the fewest enclosed shapes, thick forgiving outlines, and no background to get wrong. Finishing something quickly matters more at the start than finishing something impressive, and a completed page is what makes anyone reach for a second one.
How do I stop skin tones looking flat?
Use two pencils, not one. Lay your base tone over the whole face, then add a second, warmer shade only where the light would not reach: under the chin, beside the nose, in the crease of the eyelid, and along the hairline. Leave a small untouched highlight on the cheekbone and the forehead. Two tones and one gap will beat five carefully chosen colours applied evenly.
Are these pages suitable for adults?
Several are aimed at adults outright. The throne room, the semi-realistic freckled portrait, the girl with the dog and the sea king all carry fine line work, texture and tonal decisions that a child would find tedious rather than absorbing. If you want more pages at that difficulty, our flower coloring pages run to a similar level of detail.
Print a couple, spread out the pencils, and start with whichever one you kept scrolling back to. That is nearly always the right choice.
