Birthdays hold great importance and excitement not only for kids but for adults too. Kids are really excited to celebrate their and their loved ones’ birthdays, as for them it means cakes, chocolates, games, parties, fun and a lot of celebration.
A great way to bring the joys of birthdays into some everyday activity is by giving them some happy birthday pages to color. Happy birthday coloring pages are a great way to let your kid experiment with different designs and images. They help them create their own birthday greeting cards for family and friends.
Best Happy Birthday Coloring Pages For Kids
Here are our top 35 picks for great happy birthday coloring pages for that perfect birthday card, straight from your child to you!
1. Happy Birthday From Your Fun Friends
This coloring page is full of adorable characters and colorful balloons. It is a lot of fun to create for your kids. This coloring page contains adorable friends, a birthday cake, birthday presents, and a greeting card. To make it more interesting you can get your kid to cut out his picture and paste it here too.
2. Happy Birthday Balloons
When we say birthday party, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? Obviously colorful balloons and streamers! So here is an apt coloring page that your kid can color, using his favorite colors. To make this coloring page more fun, get some metallic paints and see how beautiful this coloring page turns out.
3. Birthday Party
Who doesn’t like birthday parties! Well, not only kids but adults enjoy birthday parties! Here is a fun coloring page for kids to color, portraying a birthday party of a 5-year-old with the entire family. This would make a great idea for a greeting card for your kid’s friend or cousin who is turning 5.
4. Birthday Cake
Does your child demand a personalized cake for their birthday with only those colors that they like? Here is a coloring page of a birthday cake that your kid can color based on their fantasy. You can help your kid to color this cake. Some choices are using rainbow colors for a rainbow cake, red and white for a red velvet cake, or just brown for his favorite chocolate cake. Color the candles using bright colors to create the perfect picture. This cake can also be cut out for the birthday collage that you and your kid are doing up for daddy’s surprise birthday party!
5. Gift Boxes
Print this coloring page for your kid to color these gift boxes. Boxes of different shapes, and sizes, with ribbons and pretty colors, make every kid’s birthday even more special. A fun idea would be to get your kid to color this page before his birthday party and as he colors each gift box ask to secretly write what each gift box should contain. Imagine the look on your child’s face when he opens his actual gifts and finds exactly what he had wished for in his coloring page.
6. The Birthday Song
A birthday makes you feel special with everyone dancing and singing for you. The birthday song that is customized and sung by family and friends makes for a sweet little wishing song for your little angel. This coloring page shows the happiness on not only the birthday boy’s face but also on the faces of his friends as they sing the birthday song for him. This coloring page is also a great way you get your little one to learn the words of the birthday song.
7. Numbered Candles
A great one for your child’s birthday greeting. Get your kid to color these numbered candle images with bright metallic colors. If you have some plain colors, use them and sprinkle some gold or diamond dust to give them a magical touch. You can even cut out the number that symbolizes your kid’s age and stick it on your kid’s birthday greeting card.
8. Party Masks
What is a kid’s birthday party without fun masks adorning young faces? This great clown mask can be a great coloring page for your kid to try different color combinations to paint the clown. It’s a clown, after all, so just let your child color the way he wants. Once the coloring page is done you can even cut out the clown mask, stick it up on thick chart paper, punch holes at both sides, and run an elastic string through the holes. An actual clown mask for your child!
9. Party Caps
A birthday party is incomplete without some bright-colored, glittering, and cute party caps that kids almost fight for. This coloring page allows your kid to color party caps the way he wants and imagines. Just let him use some bright colors and glitter to make the caps really attractive. This one is a must to go up on the birthday collage that you and your child will be creating!
10. Birthday Boy
Here is a coloring page of a happy birthday boy for your kid to color and have fun with. Watch your kid warm up his imagination as he colors this page, pretty much imagining himself or his friend in his birthday dress.
11. Mickey Wishes Happy Birthday
Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character and the official mascot of the Walt Disney Company. Your child will love coloring this picture of Mickey Mouse holding onto a cutout and wishing happy birthday. It will remind him of the amazing adventures of Mickey Mouse and his friends.
A birthday is incomplete with a birthday wish and a cake. Children love it when everyone wishes them a happy birthday and makes them feel special. Little children love to be the center of attention and want everybody’s affection. You can pin up this coloring page in your kid’s room. Notice his excitement while he colors Mickey Mouse and the balloons!
12. Birthday Lollipops
Candies, chocolates, cakes, and lollipops are children’s favorite foods. They might be fussy eaters, but give them a lollipop and you won’t hear a single complaint! In this picture, we see a tin full of lollipops with a happy birthday message on them.
Notice how your child colors each lollipop with different colors. You can use this as a poster and decorate your house during your child’s birthday party.
13. Roses for Birthday
Flowers make great birthday gifts. Both children and adults like flowers. There is something delicate and feminine about flowers that makes it many girls’ favorite. Gift your child a bouquet and see how happy they are. You can also give this coloring page to your child and ask them to color the roses. Each color of a rose stands for a virtue. For instance, the red rose stands for love, the white rose stands for peace and the yellow for friendship. All these virtues are so important in making your child a good human being.
Your child will color the roses using her favorite color, and notice which color she uses. You can give her the same color roses on her next birthday or if she achieves something great. Always appreciate her for her achievements; this will make her a confident person in the long run.
14. Teddy Brings The Gift
See how this cute little teddy wearing a bow brings in the birthday gift. All children possess soft toys, which are decorated on his bed. One of the soft toys is a teddy bear. This picture will spark his imagination and he will imagine his favorite teddy bear, which he cuddles while sleeping, is also bringing him a gift for his birthday. This teddy is as cute as your child. They will simply enjoy coloring this teddy bear.
15. Cute Monster Wishing Birthday
See who is wishing happy birthday, a mischievous-looking monster! This monster has polka dots on his body. He is jutting his tongue out, just like your little one, when some naughty idea is cooking in his mind. He is wearing a party hat and holding onto a heart-shaped cupcake with one lighted candle on it. If your child is about to turn one year old, this is a suitable birthday coloring page for him. This will evoke some excitement and suspense in your child, he will think about the gifts he will get on his birthday! For children, birthdays are synonymous with gifts.
16. Special Greeting Card
Help your child to color this page; this can be an excellent greeting card for his nana’s birthday. A homemade greeting card has a personal touch to it and is much more appreciated than a commercial greeting card. After all, it is the emotion of love and respect that matters more. The person receiving it will be happy and feel special when he finds that his little grandchild has made the greeting card on his own.
Your child will also enjoy coloring the cupcakes and the heart-shaped decorations on the icing. Hearts depict love, nothing can be better than a greeting card to express your affection!
17. Dino Carries the Cake
Just see the happy-looking dinosaur carrying the birthday cake on his back. If you have two children, and if your elder child is about to turn seven years old, you can encourage your younger one to make a card for his sibling. It is important to foster a healthy relationship between siblings, one that is full of affection and respect.
This coloring page has twofold purposes, one your child will enjoy coloring the dinosaur and the cake, and also this page can serve as a greeting card for his brother or sister.
Observe what color they add to the spots on the dinosaur’s body. You can guide him when your child colors the cake and the number 7. Isn’t it a great idea to make the coloring page an interesting greeting card?
18. Birthday Wishes for Mommy
If you happen to be the child’s teacher, give your student a coloring page to do. You can suggest they color this page and gift it to his mother on her birthday.
For every child, a mother holds the most important place in his or her life. Each child feels his mommy dearest is the best mommy in the world! That’s so true, so nothing can be better than to surprise his mother with this coloring page on her birthday.
To all mothers, don’t forget to pin up this card in your room; it is the best way to show your appreciation for his innocent little gift.
19. Tweety Birthday Page
In this picture we see the cute little Tweety wearing a party hat and sitting on a birthday cake. Your child will have a great time coloring the candles, and party hats, and the cake will look even more delicious. As a parent, you will be able to gauge his cognitive development and his creative thinking when your child colors the picture. Your little one will remember his birthday party or his friend’s birthday party when coloring this page.
If he has seen the cartoon, where Tweety escapes from the clutches of the naughty cat, then he will love coloring this page even more.
20. Birthday Certificate to Grandma
This is an interesting coloring page, and also an unusual birthday card. Guide your little one to color this birthday certificate for his or her dear grandma. It is a great way to thank her for the yummy cakes she makes for everyone at home and the interesting bedtime stories.
It is important to teach your child to respect elders, especially grandparents, and appreciate their concerns. Only parents can teach their children to love and respect their grandparents. This coloring page can serve as an excellent card for grandma’s upcoming birthday. The out-of-the-box idea of giving a birthday certificate rather than a card is also interesting!
21. Birthday Invitation Card
If you are arranging a birthday party for your little son or daughter then you can get your child to color the invitation card. Guide him or her as he colors the invitation card and writes the details. Everyone who receives this invitation card will appreciate your kid’s talent and handwriting. This princess invitation card will get the personal touch.
22. Colorful Kitty Birthday Card
Kitty is a favorite animal cartoon character of all little children. They want kitties on their dinner plates and school bags too. This coloring page shows Kitty dressed as a princess.
Many kids love to dress as princes and princesses too, so just notice the broad grin on their faces when they see this kitty coloring page. They will enjoy the fun activity even more when you share your knowledge about the cartoon character of Kitty. You can also help your child to research the kitty’s character once your child finishes coloring the page. Don’t forget to pin it up in their room!
23. Blowing the Candles
This picture is a scene from a family birthday celebration. It is not exactly a birthday party but a close family gathering. We see the birthday boy blowing the candle on the cake, with his brother on his side singing the birthday song for him. Even the pet dog has climbed up on the table to take part in the joyous birthday celebration. In the background, we see balloons and stars, the birthday symbols.
Your child will instantly connect with this picture and will love coloring this page. It is a great way to show love for pets too! Pets are like family friends and they have emotions as well.
24. Birthday Cupcake
This is a modern way of saying happy birthday. What if you forgot your friend’s birthday and remembered it last minute? This is the best way to give him a birthday cupcake with a candle on it. It is a symbolic representation of a birthday.
Children and adults both love cupcakes and even more if it is made of chocolate! Let your child’s imagination run wild when he colors the icing.
25. Gifts Galore
Children love gifts, to them birthday means delicious food and gifts. They wait for their birthday every year to get the gift they wish for. How excited do they feel when they see they got what they wished for?
As a parent, if you want to know what your child wants, you can ask him to put his wishes on paper, place it inside a sock, and hang it on top of the bed, just like he does for Santa Claus. You can also check his expression when he sees an advertisement for a children’s toy on television. Sometimes you don’t need to work hard to know what they want; the child might ask you directly for a gift. Promise him one for his birthday or as a reward for his little achievements at his play school.
The most important part of getting your child to take an active interest in art and painting is to encourage their talent by appreciating everything they do and helping them take their art to the next level. Let your kid play around with these coloring pages and watch his imagination take new shape.
These coloring pages will be great aids to help your child learn craft with colors. It is also a great way to let them enjoy something else other than getting hooked on gadgets!
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