Few children in the age group of three to eight years old find difficulty in identifying different shapes and sizes, also in coloring. If your kid is one among them, then the greatest ways to teach your kid is by giving him/her abstract coloring pictures.
Abstract coloring pages, although do not have particular character, their shapes and designs are quite interesting. You can introduce your little ones to the world of designing and coloring at very early stage by using them.
Moreover, the advantage of abstract coloring is that it does not have any condition in using particular colors as your kids can use all their imaginations and combinations to make the page bright and beautiful. The same cannot be true when you give them coloring pages with human characters or animals.
Top 20 Abstract Coloring Pages For Kids
Here are the top free abstract coloring pages printable that younger children will find interesting to color:
1. Round And Round:
This picture is particularly good for your kid if he or she has just started holding crayons and is learning how to draw their first alphabet and shapes. Though there are so many circles in this picture and your kid may lose count, but will certainly learn ‘what is a round shape or a circle’ and how to color it. This is the right image if you want your child to start coloring.
2. The Beautiful Flower:
Kids love flowers, and this picture will certainly give them scope for using their imagination to color the flower according to their own liking and interest. This image shows the design of a complete flower. Your kids will find it interesting, as they will have to color the long outer petals, the inner small petals, the stigma and the center. They will look very pretty after coloring.
3. The Ice-Cream Mandala:
The picture shows several petals almost resembling cup ice-creams arranged in a circle. The whole picture is designed with squares and lines. Your kid will find this easy and interesting to color as there are tiny squares and petal which look like ice-cream cups.
4. The Abstract Flower:
This picture has a beautiful flower with medium sized petals in the middle and the rest of the drawing is made up of leaves like design encircling the flower with uneven circles. These leaves have petal like texture that can be used to make a good color combination. Your kid can color this picture using dark and light combination so that they learn how to highlight the special features of a coloring page.
5. Butterflies With Rainbow:
This is a very beautiful picture that has butterflies encircling a beautiful flower in the middle. These butterflies are also forming rainbows at their meeting point. Your kid will enjoy using different colors to fill flowers, rainbows and the butterflies. This picture certainly has everything and your kids will love to fill colors.
6. Beautiful Peacock:
Isn’t the Peacock in the picture beautiful? And it will look amazing when your kid will fill in color to it. Your kid will find coloring this abstract peacock very easy as it is very simple.
7. Bunch Of Flowers:
This picture has small pot with beautiful flowers arranged in a bunch. There are no specific flowers and hence your kid will find it easy to color them as per their wish. All the flowers are almost similar in shape and size and kids can use varying colors to bring out a multi-hued and bright effect.
8. The Flowering Circles:
This whole picture has different flowers arranged in a circle. Such pictures provide your kid vast scope for trying out different color combinations as they get to color different flowers in one design and bring out the effect of each.
9. Decorated Petals in Mandala (Circle):
This picture has one flower with clear petals in the center and other decorations enhancing the beauty of the petals. These decorative designs are intricate and they have encircled the flowers. This image will surely give a good coloring experience to your kid.
10. Multiple Flower Design:
This picture has several flowers that keep on growing as they encircle the flower within. This beautiful design has diagonally passing straight lines which form diamond shapes all through the spaces in between the flowers.
11. Waffle Iron Design:
This picture shows beautiful design that reminds of Waffle Iron pattern. Your kid will love coloring the different squares and geometrical shapes in the sheet and also the flowers that have unique shaped petals and leaves which are different from the regular trend.
12. Beautiful Lotus Petal Design:
This picture has beautiful lotus petals in the middle with leaves and other design surrounding it in a circle. The complete design will look very beautiful when the right combination of dark and subdued colors is used.
13. Intricate Web Design:
This picture looks like a spider web with intricate design made up of lines and squares. Coloring this image is almost similar to coloring boxes and rectangle shapes of different sizes. This way you can introduce your child to color different shapes and also to a spider web as the pattern is like a web.
14. Simple Mandala Design:
This picture shows simple design of a flower with long petals at the center. The flower has other decorative designs encircling it. Such coloring pages are good for practice and should be given to your kids, especially if they are in kindergarten.
15. Decorative Easter Eggs:
This picture shows Easter eggs of unequal sizes and each with varying designs. Your kids will have a good amount of scope for coloring the page according to their imagination about the Easter egg. With good color combination and right use of colors, the picture will look impressive and beautiful. This image is particularly good if you want to tell your kid about the different Christian festivals and events.
16. A Shoal of Fishes:
This picture shows a school of happy looking fishes. A group of fishes is also called shoal of fishes, it is a collective noun. Your child must be familiar with fishes, and knows eating fish is good for health.
Did you tell your little one that fishes can’t live without water, they need water to breathe? There are many types of fishes. If you have an aquarium at home then he will able to realize that all Mother Nature’s little creatures are beautiful.
This picture also gives ample scope of coloring. Your child can use his imagination to make the fishes look bright and colorful.
17. Butterfly Collecting Nectar:
Butterflies are the most beautiful creatures that Mother Nature has blessed with so many colors. Biologists have classified various types of butterflies and you can show your child some pictures of butterflies.
Instruct him never to touch a butterfly because it is very delicate and it dies when its wings are plucked. There are tiny particles in the wings that give it the color. Many people watch butterflies through magnifying glass; you can try this with your kid. It will not familiarize your kid with a butterfly also he will learn different parts of the butterfly. You can also show how him the evolution of a butterfly, this will surely surprise him!
This picture will give your child a lot of scope to experiment with colors. He will enjoy coloring the butterfly drinking nectar from a flower. Using glitters will make the picture brighter. Don’t forget to pin it up as a poster in your kid’s Nature themed room. Through the coloring pages you can teach your child to love and respect Mother Nature, because we owe our existence to her.
18. The Sun and the Sea:
Who doesn’t love visiting beaches? Everyone enjoys the sight of Sun shining over the Sea, and waters sparkling like diamond. In this picture, we see a very stylized Sun and waves. There are many shapes hidden in this picture that you can ask your child to spot. Let your child’s imagination take wings, as he colors this abstract landscape and make it look beautiful.
19. Flower Rangoli Pattern:
Making a rangoli every day is very common in many parts of India. It not only beautifies the porch of your house, but is considered auspicious. This floral pattern is abstract and bold; there are no minute details as such to fill in. It is a simple design for a beginner, who has just learned to use colors. You can guide your child to make the page look like a real rangoli.
20. Abstract Feather Pattern:
Can you guess whether these are leaves or feathers? This is a true form of abstract art, which leave your child guessing. Your little one will be really excited to color this picture, and give some meaning to it. He can use as many colors from the palate to make this page look vibrant. Just don’t stick to crayons, some poster colors can make this picture look like a masterpiece!
If your kid is inquisitive and ready to learn, then a good way to introduce him to an array of shapes and designs is through these abstract coloring pages. You will jump in joy when you see your child smiling, as he or she colors these free printable abstract coloring pages in the most vibrant color schemes you ever imagined!
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