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Fantasy

Fairies Coloring Pages

This set mixes fairies with the tiny places they might call home. There's a garden fairy beside a flower, a fairy holding a star-tipped wand, one perched on a leaf, one greeting a butterfly and a pixie carrying a lantern. Alongside them are a spotted mushroom house, a little door in a tree trunk, a treehouse with a ladder and a ring of toadstools.

Most pages use big, simple shapes that suit preschoolers, while the fairy door, the fairy ring and the treehouse have more small parts for children who like a bit of a challenge. The homes are especially good for storytelling: who lives behind that door, and what is the lantern for?

Fairy pages pair nicely with time outdoors. After coloring, take a walk and look for leaves, mushrooms, flowers and hollow tree roots where a fairy might live, just remembering to look and not touch when it comes to wild mushrooms.

Tips for coloring fairies

  • Fairy wings look delicate when colored very lightly. Try pale blue or lilac and leave some white paper showing so they seem see-through.
  • To make a lantern or wand glow, color the center yellow, add a ring of orange around it, and then shade a soft yellow halo just outside the outline.
  • Storybook toadstools are classically red with white spots, and the easiest way to get that look is to color the cap and simply skip the spots.
  • Choose a woodland palette of mossy greens, bark browns and petal pinks so the fairy homes look as if they grew right out of the forest floor.

New to coloring with your child? Our guide to choosing pages by age explains what the Easy, Medium and Detailed labels mean.