Delight the little astronauts in your life with these free printable space coloring pages for kids! They’re perfect for a rainy day and will look great on your fridge!
Teaching your kids about the planets is fun when you use our free printable space coloring pages for kids. Although many children love everything about space, these coloring pages are for everyone! They’re a great way to support a lesson about planet earth and outer space or just to have fun!
At what age should a child start coloring?
There is no right time to start coloring with your kids. While there are certain ages that pediatricians recommend your child knows their colors and fine motor skills to hold a crayon, the overall consensus of when a child should start coloring is really up to their parents. We’d recommend that your child is at an age where they can hold their own crayons and know that it’s a tool to use on paper, not something to eat.
Children who show signs of this desire to color may be ready to color their own coloring pages. While our free printable coloring pages may be best for preschoolers, you could easily color them with your kids of all ages for fun family moments.
Why is coloring with kids important?
When you use coloring pages to teach kids about various areas in life, they retain the information for longer. There are quite a few reasons why coloring is beneficial for kids and I’ll explain what you can do with these free printable outer space coloring pages for kids.
Coloring with kids helps them develop fine motor skills that will encourage their finger and hand muscles to grow properly. This skill is necessary for the ability to brush their teeth and other fine motor skill tasks that utilize your child’s hands and fingers in the future.
Coloring also teaches children color recognition, which is when they learn to identify and name different colors. This skill takes a little practice, and these free coloring pages are a great activity to do this!
Coloring with your children is one of the best ways to bond over a fun, creative and educational activity. These space coloring page printables provide you with an educational tool to teach your preschoolers about the solar system and the planets.
Free Outer Space Coloring Pages
There are two free solar system coloring pages in this free download: one for you and one for your child.
Outer Space Coloring Sheet for Kids
This simple coloring sheet is perfect for young children! It shows where each planet falls in relation to our home planet, Earth.
This is a fun solar system coloring page for kids to enjoy. Allow your kids to color this fun space coloring page printable for kids however they choose. The colors aren’t important, but it is a creative way to educate kids about the planets out there in our solar system.
Use this page to teach your little ones about the different planets and space exploration. This is a great time to read some great books about space or watch some kid-friendly documentaries.
Space Coloring Page for Adults
This coloring page shows the amazing planets like the one for kids, but with much more detail. It is more appropriate for adults or older children.
Print out both activity sheets and you and your little one can color them together!
Click the image below to download the Space coloring pages for adults and kids
More space-themed activities for kids
If your little one is passionate about space, try these activities to extend their learning!
I hope you have fun with kids doing this a colouring activity. We have a lot of colouring pages you can access for free. Here are some of them:
Other colouring pages your kids will love on KiddyCharts
We have a range of adult and kids colouring on the site - why not check these out?
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Dinosaur coloring pages for adults and kids
Or a Dinosaur in fact?!!?
Butterfly coloring pages for adults and kids
We have some lovely Butterly colouring as well...
Butterfly lifecycle printables
...and some lifecycle pics too!
Are you doing space theme activities? You might pop up in some other sites out there:
Space activities to compliment our colouring sheets from the web
This glow in the dark solar system sensory play from PlayGround Park Bench will be really fun for kids.
For older kids, you might want to look up more resources and activities about the solar systems and space. Get 25 free space and solar system worksheets from Blessed Learners.
Any why not make a space shuttle too!
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Helen
Helen
Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, and website editor; and this site is (we think) the only Social Enterprise parenting magazine! Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time. KiddyCharts has reach of over 1.1million across social and the site. The blog works with big family brands (including travel) to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10. It gives 51%+ profits to Reverence for Life, who fund a number of important initiatives in Africa, including bringing running water and basic equipment to a school in Tanzania. Helen has worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on. Get in touch TODAY!